T Quotes
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“The true church is not made of creeds and forms, nor is it contained in walls of wood and stone; the heart of man is its temple and the Spirit of truth is the one guide into all Truth. When men learn to turn within to the Spirit of truth, who is in each one for his light and inspiration, the differences between the churches of man will be eliminated, and the one church will be recognized.”
“The true church is too different for the world to tolerate it.”
“The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.”
“The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.”
“The true Church of Jesus Christ will never be overwhelmed by the world. The waters may swirl around us, but the Lord has promised to build His Church and keep it strong until He returns.
One thing must be avoided at all costs. We must not let the world seep into the Church. When we let the world dilute our Gospel and water down our values, we'll disappear from sight. Let's keep the Church holy - and wholly committed to Scripture.
The chief danger of the Church today is that it's trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of trying to turn the world upside down.”
“The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.”
“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, César Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the divine by the necessity of earning their daily bread. But such clercs are inevitably rare. The rule is that the living creature condemned to struggle for life turns to practical passions, and thence to the sanctifying of those passions.”
“The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
“The true color of one person is not determined by skin, but by the behavior in it.”
“The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.”
Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection
“The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.”
“The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.”
“The True Comrade Is A Pacifist! Love Is What Drives All Great Revolutionaries, Love For The People, Love For The Country, And, Most Importantly Love For All Of Humanity! A Revolution Only Requires One's Voice, Not A Single Bullet Is Needed To Be Fired...We Are All Comrades In The Battlefield Of Life! Listen To The Oppressed, Speak Up Against Injustice It Is Our Duty As Sane Human Beings, Feel The Pain Of Those Who Are Suffering Because The Suffrage Of Another It Is Your Own...We Are All Brothers, And, Sisters In This Game We Call Life!”
“The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.”
Source: Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings
“The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.”
Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester
“The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
“The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative.”
“The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer”
Source: Thomas Merton - Spiritual Direction and Meditation
“The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.”
Source: Selected Essays of John Berger
“The true contrast between science and religion is that science unites the world and makes it possible for people of widely differing backgrounds to work together and to cooperate. Religion, on the other hand, by its very claim to know “The Truth” through “revelation,” is inherently divisive and a creator of separatism and hostility.”
“The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.”
“The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.”
Source: South Wind
“The true cost of the pollution that is being dumped into the atmosphere and manifests itself in our sick children dealing with asthma or older folks dealing with heart and lung disease from the pollutions created by the burning of these fossil fuels, may not be reflected in the prices of fossil fuels, but that does not mean we aren't paying a high price for them.”
“The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.”
Source: Hegel's Philosophy of right
“The true crafty evil person is rare. It’s bumbling that causes most of the misery of the world, utter stupid bumbling.”
Source: Pandora
“The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your being, out of this silence comes a different kind of creativity.”
“The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.”
Source: Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
“The true creator-self is a light at heart and free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.”
“The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.”
“The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.”
“The true critic and the true reader are inextricably bound. They both recognise that literature is not just about plot or character or rhythm or rhyme. It is about meaning. It is about impact. It is about transformation.”
“The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.”
Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke
“The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.”
“The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities, including, for example, a major public works program to employ millions of people. The Democrats want that. The Republicans may be pressured from back home to want it, but it hasn't happened yet under the Obama administration.”
“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.”
“The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.”
Source: RICHARD HANNAY Complete Collection – 7 Mystery & Espionage Books in One Volume (Unabridged): The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, The Three Hostages, The Island of Sheep, The Courts of the Morning & The Green Wildebeest
“The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.”
“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
“The true definition of "the best" is that at the given place at a given moment it is better than the rest. Even a shade better makes it the best and all other distinguishing factors, that usually play a determining role, are considered insignificant.”
“The true definition of the word Aryan is not far from the ideologies of natural selection taught in Darwinism. The latter is idolized while the former is demonized by society, but they all speak the same language.”
“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”
“The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people - faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent their views ably and faithfully, but will also elect men who will exercise their conscientious judgment - faith that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor, and ultimately recognize right.”
“The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“The true depth of understanding and maturity as a practitioner is how we apply what we've learned to our lives.”
“The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away”
“The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.”
“The true determining factor of our belief system is not what we're saying, but how we are living.”