But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, tho...ugh a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day, and having done everything, to st...and firm. Stand therefore, and fasten the belt of truth around your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness. As shoes for your feet put on whatever will make you ready to proclaim the gospel of peace. With all of these, take the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For 'truth' itself is a...n abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substance ... or a quality ... or a relation.... But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word 'true.' In vino, possibly, 'veritas,' but in a sober symposium 'verum.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and... to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth ... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,... The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to admini...ster during life, will pass away "unwept, unhonored, and unsung," no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: "The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced." Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »