Quotes about Truth

Mother whispered, "See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

tell the truth to yourself first, and to the children.

We are sa blind as we want to be

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

In a Time In a time of secret wooing Today prepares tomorrow's ruin Left knows not what right is doing My heart is torn asunder. In a time of furtive sighs Sweet hellos and sad goodbyes Half-truths told and entire lies My conscience echoes thunder. In a time when kingdoms come Joy is brief as summer's fun Happiness, its race has run Then pain stalks in to plunder.

A lack of courage allows us to remain blinded to our own history and deaf to the cries of our past.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

In that second I was wounded. My mind struck a truth as an elbow can strike a table edge. A poor, uneducated servant in Africa was so secure he could ignore established White rudeness. No Black American I had ever known knew that security. Our tenure in the United States, though long and very hard-earned, was always so shaky, we had developed patience as a defense, but never as aggression.

Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve to peer into my eyes while I within deny their threats and answer them with lies

Momma wouldn't talk right then, but later in the evening I found that my violation lay in using the phrase by the way. Momma explained that Jesus was the Way, the Truth and the Light, and anyone who says by the way is really saying, by Jesus, or by God and the Lord's name would not be taken in vain in her house.

It's not what we don't know that hurts us," people say. "It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage." There

When the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won't draw attention to himself, but will make sense of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said. He will honor me; he will take from me and deliver it to you.