Comedy is an escape not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.
The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.
Faith is the confidence the assurance the enforcing truth the knowing.
Not truth but faith it is that keeps the world alive.
The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that but it's the truth.
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic not gifted with the necessary scientific learning presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
I seek a deeper truth but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that He exists.
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care the tie between relationship and responsibility and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time you want to be truthful to the predecessors because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.
Truth be told I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.
By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.