The Truth Quotes
Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.
I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?
I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.
If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!
What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?
If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
All of science is largely formalized common sense.
When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.
And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.
Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.
It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.
Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.
I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher
God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.
Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
