Quotes about lying
lying night light
Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together. John Donne
lying valentine fall
Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.
lying judging answers
To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.
lying men healthy
And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.
lying adventure true-life
We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie. John Eldredge
lying sunday son
The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead. John Ortberg
lying giving doe
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
lying light order
We need to have greater patience with our sense of inner contradiction in order to allow its different dimensions to come into conversation within us. There is a secret light and vital energy in contradiction. Where is energy, there is life and growth. Your contemplative solitude will allow your contradictions to emerge with clarity and force. If you remain faithful to this energy, you will gradually come to participate in a harmony that lies deeper than any contradiction. This will give you new courage to engage the depth, danger, and darkness of your life. John O'Donohue
lying home soul
The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control. We avoid it or quell it by filtering it through our protective barriers of domestication and control. The normal way never leads home.
lying sunset dawn
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. John McCrae
lying immature quality
That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the quality of experience is a fact most easily recognized in dealing with the immature. John Dewey
lying thinking reflection
In general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things which determine our conscious thinking and decide our conclusions. And these habitudes which lie below the level of reflection are just those which have been formed in the constant give and take of relationship with others.
lying mind soil
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
lying science law
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
lying pursuit ideological
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial. John Carroll
lying community moral
The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89
lying religion may
The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods. John Calvin
lying evil greed
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
lying punishment abuse
Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment. John Bercow
lying two rooms
Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie. John Berryman
lying media bombs
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why but the editorialists forget it terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. John Berger
lying men people
There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people. John Aubrey
lying ambition desire
A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher. Johann Georg Hamann
lying cells skulls
The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than 100 billion nerve cells and trillion supporting cells that make up your brain and mine constitute the most elaborate structure in the known universe. Joel Davis
lying sunflower may
Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers. Joe Hill
lying show-me fries
Show me a person who doesn't like french fries and we'll swap lies. Joan Lunden
lying looks appearance
Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Joan Rivers
lying humorous mean
It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous. Jimmy Swaggart
lying discovery essence
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes. George Leonard
lying men two
Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find. Georg Solti
lying zombie world
My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies. George A. Romero
lying israel sight
There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God. George A. Smith
lying land america
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel