Fallacious hope which daily truths deride-- For you, alas!
He gives a fuller unfolding of spiritual truths than His predecessors, and reveals the Will of God with regard to all the problems of individual and social life that confront us in the world today.
But despite the imperfection and inadequacy of historical narratives and translations, the greatest essential truths which form the massive and firm foundations of this Cause stand out like mountains from the mists of uncertainty.
Thus the Jews thought and spoke, for they did not understand the Scriptures nor the glorious truths that were contained in them.
Bahá’u’lláh declares that the higher spiritual truths can be communicated only by means of this spiritual language.
It is the exposition of Divine truths and essential principles.
In ten thousand ways, in that great tropical university, men feel themselves in closer touch than elsewhere with the ultimate facts andtruths of nature.
The rascally Goudar made them drunk, and in this state they told some terrible truths about their pretended father.
No doubt she exposed her vanity to some rude shocks, but she had also the inestimable advantage of hearing truths which her courtiers would certainly not tell her.
Her glow of sentiment, her play of fancy, her artistic yearnings for truths remote, for the invisible fairyland of beautiful romance, receded into the background of the picture.
Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell: 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
Truths turn into dogmas the moment they are disputed.
Of right and wrong he taughtTruths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell!
Truths are often disagreeable to those who are not in the habit of hearing them, and doubly offensive after long experience of the homage of blind obedience and subserviency.
Not to be deceived in matters of faith, we must always distinguish very carefully between the abuses to which a devotion may lead and the truths upon which the devotion rests.
Where shall we find the chief truths which the Church teaches?
We shall find the chief truths which the Church teaches in the Apostles' Creed.
Where does the Church find the revealed truths it is bound to teach?
A creed is a summary or list of the chief truths we believe or profess to believe.
Faith is a Divine virtue by which we firmly believe the truths which God has revealed.
By "profess the faith of Christ" we mean, believe all the truths and practice the religion He has taught.
We can not learn all truths by our reason alone, for some truthsare beyond the power of our reason and must be taught to us by God.
The duty of the faithful is to learn the revealed truths taught; to receive the Sacraments, and to aid in saving souls by their prayers, good works and alms.
The Apostles left us a creed that all who wished to become Christians might have a standard of the truths they must know and believe before receiving Baptism.
All these creeds teach the same doctrines, for the longer creeds are only a fuller explanation of the truths contained in the Apostles' Creed.
The Church finds the revealed truths it is bound to teach in the Holy Scripture and revealed traditions.
Yet the discerning can see that now is no time for keeping in the background the great truths of religion.
What chance had the boys so brought up, of forming any conception of the essential truths of Religion?
Somewhere the thread had been broken, and the glowing truths couched in such language as would light up the pages of history and astronomy, were lost upon the silent air.
He seems to supply a want long felt, and in case of Garfield's election we have no hesitation in saying that it will be due largely to the scorching truths and heaven-born genius of this remarkable man.
We are passing through grave and strenuous times and it is quite obvious that we shall have to adapt ourselves to new conditions: "new truths make ancient good uncouth.
He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all.
These truths are not often held up in public assemblies: but they cannot be unknown to any who hear me.
The Merchant and the Friar; or, Truths and Fictions of the Middle Ages.
This essay, and his next publication, entitled De Gravitate Aetheris, were deeply tinged with the philosophy of Rene Descartes, but they contain truths not unworthy of the philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia.
For isolated truths separated from other known truths by an interval of conjecture, in which error might find room to construct its works, may offer perilous occasions to unprepared and unstable minds.
The Church solves it in practice, by admitting the truths and the principles in the gross, and by dispensing them in detail as men can bear them.
That," said the Queen, "is because truths are not all made of marble.
Every party in those days virtually had its own prohibitive Index, to brand all inconvenient truths with the note of falsehood.
He writes to tell the truths he finds, not to prove the truths which he believes.
Within their respective spheres, politics can determine what rights are just, science what truths are certain.
He would not then have proceeded to consider the whole Church infected with the liability to err from which her rulers are not exempt, or to degrade the fundamental truths of Christianity to the level of mere school opinions.
All that is being done for ecclesiastical learning by the priesthood of the Continent bears testimony to the truths which are now called in question; and every work of real science written by a Catholic adds to their force.
For this only takes place with regard to certain truths that are known and spoken, and especially in regard to such as pertain to faith, of which the Apostle speaks.
Jesus saw that it was needful for him to take the twelve disciples apart by themselves, that he might teach them some of the deeper truths of his gospel.
Wherever Jesus was, a crowd was always around him, and he could find no time to teach his disciples some truths needful for them to know.
But besides the public teachings of Jesus, such as the Sermon on the Mount and the parables, there were other great truths of the gospel that could not be given to the people, for they were not ready for them and could not understand them.
But to many these truths are spoken in parables, for they hear the story, but do not try to find out what it means.
Clay, to urge upon his fellow-citizens the self-evident truths of our Declaration of Independence, and their application to the colored population of that State.
Several of them were called to announce and advocate their principles in communities where it was especially dangerous “to speak those truths which tyrants dread.
The illustrious German came, as it proved, to assist in a great moral enterprise, the success of which was indispensably necessary to complete the American Revolution, and verify the truths which it declared to the world.
Thus he stood at the beginning of the nineteenth century, as Erasmus stood at the beginning of the sixteenth, perceiving and proclaiming the existence of truths which others were to apply to the needs of the time.
Sidenote: Note the mass of general truths and maxims in this part of The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Sidenote: Shakspere's truths and their imagery glorify one another.
Read carefully any of his more lofty tragedies, and ponder the general truths there so lavishly scattered; and you will find that an immense proportion of those apophthegms have a moral bearing, often a most solemn and impressive one.
The truths which he taught, received magnificence and amenity from the illustrative forms; and the poetical images were elevated into a higher sphere of associations by the dignity of the principles which they were applied to adorn.
Religion is rooted in our spiritual nature and its fundamental truths are as independent of experience for their hold on our consciences as the truths of mathematics for their hold on our reason.
Here, too, as in regard to the necessary truths of mathematics, and in regard to the relativity of all our knowledge, the theory has purchased completeness by the cheap expedient of calling one of the facts to be accounted for a delusion.
In Mathematics we have truthswhich we cannot but accept, and accept as universal and necessary: in Physics we have no such truths, nor has Kant even endeavoured to prove that we have.
It was not the dulcet truths that were purifying to the soul of man, but the harsh and unpalatable.
God do so to me and more also if ever I should become an unfaithful physician and offer to the poor souls of men only those Truths that taste sweet in their mouths and that smell grateful to their nostrils!
It is conceded to Kant that mathematical truths are synthetic, not analytic.
Had his attention {17} been drawn that way, the very first requisite, on empirical principles, would have been to take stock of the leading truths already ascertained.
You want some truths which are common to men as men, which will help and teach them, let their temperament or their circumstances be what they will-do you not?
Indeed, all those who arose up to oppose the doctrines we taught were confounded, and could not with any success combat the truths we preached.
Before I left England, there were about thirty of that family and connections baptized, six of whom were ordained to be fellow-laborers with us in the vineyard, and I left them rejoicing in the truths they had embraced.
Now, however, that evolution had slowly transformed Pierre, those common truthsseemed to him as irrefutable, as clear as the sunlight itself.
There was an amazing medley of truths and inventions, of precise information lost amidst the most unexpected extravagance.
Doubtless it must be a religion nearer to life, giving a larger place to the things of the world, and taking the acquiredtruths into due account.
If the domain of science embraces the acquired truths, it also embraces, and will ever do so, the truthsthat remain to be acquired.
However, he judged the document at a glance, at once separating the few truths it contained from a mass of foolishness and falsehood.
What echoes of modern society, its truths and certainties, had reached his ears?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "truths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
