Truth Quotes

Some good quotes on truth.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please – you can never have both. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses
~Norman Grubb

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle.
~ George Orwell

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
~William James

Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
~Rev. Denny Brake

We are often unprepared for Truth, which is why Truth is revealed to us progressively.
~Chip Brogden

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
~Jim Davis

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels’ bread when found.
~W. MacNeile Dixon

The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
~Stephen Hawking

The truth is “hate speech” only to those who have something to hide.
~Michael Rivero

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
~Thomas Jefferson

The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.
~Albert Einstein

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.
~Shoseki

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
~Thoreau

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. ~Oscar Wilde

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
~Martin Luther

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
~Leo Tolstoy

To some the truth is an insult, to others life from the dead.
~Gary Amirault

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
~Antonio Porchia

Temptation Quotes

Here are some temptation quotes.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
~ Bible

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
~Anonymous

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw

I can resist everything except temptation.
~Oscar Wilde

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
~T. S. Eliot

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
~Benjamin Franklin

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
~James Branch Cabell

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
~ Robert Orben

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
~W N Taylor

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
~Thomas Jefferson

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
~Lane Olinghouse

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
~Oscar Wilde

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values – and witnesses. ~Franklin P. Jones

If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.
~François, duc de La Rochefoucauld
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
~Margaret Oliphant

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
~Mark Twain

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.
~Bible, Matthew 26:41

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
~Eduardo Galeano

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.
~H. L. Mencken

Suffering Quotes

Some Christian Suffering Quotes:

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
~ Helen Adams Keller

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss – a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
~Arthur Helps

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
~Ernest Holmes

Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God’s word by the loss of earthly joys–sickness destroying the flavor of them all–did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is that mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him–this is all.
~ Mrs. Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
~William Shakespeare

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
~Princess Diana

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
~Thomas Carlyle

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
~Aeschylus

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
~Saint Ignatius

Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
~W. Somerset Maugham

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you’re in front of someone who’s suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
~Paul Farmer

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
~William Butler Yeats

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.
~Kenneth Scott Latourette

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~Marcel Proust

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
~Michel de Montaigne

Life Quotes

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~Hans Christian Anderson

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
~Abraham Lincoln

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
~Robert Byrne

A useless life is an early death.
~Goethe

Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
~Alan Bennett

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
~Chinese Proverb

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
~Albert Einstein

A life without cause is a life without effect.
~Barbarella

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
~Alice Walker

Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
~Cherralea Morgen

The most decisive actions of our life … are most often unconsidered actions.
~André Gide

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.
~Jack Handey

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
~Emily Dickinson

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Howard Thurman

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
~Dalai Lama

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
~Corita Kent

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
~Quentin Crisp

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
~George Sand

As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.
~Author Unknown

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
~Albert Einstein

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
~ Maria Robinson

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
~Edith Wharton

Adversity Quotes

Here are some christian adversity quotes and sayings to inspire and motivate you..

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. ~Charles C. West

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
~M. Kathleen Casey

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
~William Shakespeare

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no education like adversity.
~Disraeli

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.
~Mother Teresa

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
~Garth Brooks

Life didn’t promise to be wonderful.
~Teddy Pendergrass

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
~Jewish Proverb

Adversity is the first path to truth.
~Lord Byron

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
~William Hazlitt

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~Rose F. Kennedy

Adversity enhances this tale we call life.
~Ever Garrison

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
~Jewish Proverb

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
~ Antoine de Saint-ExupÈry

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
~Henry Ward Beecher

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
~Russian Proverb

Is made more sacred by adversity.
~Charles Caleb Colton

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
~Bernard M. Baruch

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
~Oscar Wilde

Bad is never good until worse happens.
~Danish Proverb

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~Rose F. Kennedy

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
~Bernie Siegel

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
~William Stafford

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~Rose F. Kennedy

Apology Quotes and Sayings

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
~Margaret Laurence

An apology is a good way to have the last word.
~Author Unknown

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
~Kimberly Johnson

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
~ Red Auerbach

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.
~Margaret Lee Runbeck

Friends are God’s apology for relations.
~Hugh Kingsmill

The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words
~ John Milton

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
~Samuel Butler

My mother could make anybody feel guilty – she used to get letters of apology from people she didn’t even know.
~ Joan Rivers

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
~Jonathan Swift

Today Quotes

Quotes about today.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
Theodor Geisel

Today’s accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
Earl Wilson

I’m trying to do the best I can. I’m not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
Mark Spitz

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.
Anne Wilson Schaef

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
Alexis Arguello

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
~Benjamin Franklin

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
~Leo F. Buscaglia

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

I love those who do not know how to live for today.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
~ Abraham Lincoln

One today is worth two tomorrows.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.
~Edgar Cayce

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
~ Dale Carnegie

Quotes on Sanctity

Quotes and sayings on Sanctity and Sanctity of life.

If anyone is unable to bring up children because of poverty, it is better to abstain from marriage than to mar the work of God with wicked hands.
~Lactantius

We must pray a great deal and beg God not to chastise us and save us in time and for eternity.
~ Sr. Lucia

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.
~ Carole Keeton Strayhorn

Are you to dissolve the conception by aid of drugs? I believe it is no more lawful to hurt a child in process of birth than to hurt one who is already born.
~Tertullian

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people…No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.
~ St. Thomas Becket

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
~Emma Goldman

There is a ‘’sanctity” involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
~ James Arthur Baldwin

Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.
~John Boehner

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
~ George Sarton

You shall not kill the child by obtaining an abortion. Nor, again, shall you destroy him after he is born.
~Barnabas

The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted. Because if it means anything it means the in-sanctity of species which are not human.
~ John Aspinall

You shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill one who has been born.
~Didache