Top 50 Eternal Truths Quotes
#1. Make us eternal truths receive,
And practice all that we believe:
Give us thyself, that we may see
The Father and the Son, by thee.
Charlemagne
#2. Cultural lies conform us, but eternal truths transform us.
Rick Warren
#3. Sound principles and eternal truths need to be frequently repeated so that we do not forget their application nor become dissuaded by other arguments.
Ezra Taft Benson
#4. My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths
Moses Mendelssohn
#5. The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
David Friedrich Strauss
#6. We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
Chiang Kai-shek
#7. All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost.
Louis Claude De Saint-Martin
#8. A body of work may be reviled
mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings
and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.
Charles De Lint
#9. Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.
A. B. Yehoshua
#10. In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
C.S. Lewis
#11. Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions.
Yoko Ogawa
#12. Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim
Vincent De Paul
#13. A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.
Herb Caen
#14. Nor is mathematics about a Platonic reality of eternal truths. It is a creation of the human body and senses, growing out of the activities of moving along a path and of collecting, constructing, and measuring objects.
Steven Pinker
#15. To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.
Joseph Goebbels
#16. Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
Moses Mendelssohn
#17. One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.
Bertha Von Suttner
#18. It is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths that distinguishes us from the mere animals and gives us Reason and the sciences, raising us to the knowledge of ourselves and of God ...
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
#19. The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#20. One of the eternal truths of life - People who ask "do you know who I am?" will always, given half a chance, tell you.
Christina Engela
#21. But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.
Gottfried Leibniz
#22. God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths - the truth of God's eternal judgment, and the truth of His eternal love.
Billy Graham
#23. Hegel believed that the basis of human cognition changed from one generation to the next. There were therefore no 'eternal truths', no timeless reason. The only fixed point philosophy can hold on to is history itself.
Jostein Gaarder
#24. The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.
Stefan Zweig
#25. Science cannot promise eternal truths; only the elimination of false hypotheses and the establishment of what is currently the most likely explanation of an aspect of reality
David Filkin
#26. To discover you purpose in life you must turn to God's Word, not the world's wisdom. You must build your life on eternal truths, not pop psychology, success-motivation, or inspirational stories.
Rick Warren
#27. Selfhood is a heavy, hardly translucent medium, which cuts off most of the light of reality and distorts what little it permits to pass.' This is Huxley's central notion [of Grey Eminence], that we should 'stand out of our own light' in order to see the eternal truths.
Nicholas Murray
#28. Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.
Oscar Wilde
#29. Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#30. Just because your faith is shaken doesn't mean the faith is shaken. The eternal truths of the Kingdom aren't altered or affected by the experience that shook your beliefs.
Sarah Arthur
#31. Mathematics is one of the surest ways for a man to feel the power of thought and the magic of the spirit. Mathematics is one of the eternal truths and, as such, raises the spirit to the same level on which we feel the presence of God.
Julio Cesar De Mello E Souza
#32. There are no eternal truths. Morality and Truth are just a matter of perspective.
Jenifer Mohammed
#33. The love of beauty is really a signal to free ourselves from that sensory attachment, and to begin the ascent of the soul towards the world of ideas, there to participate in the divine version of reproduction, which is the understanding and the passing on of eternal truths.
Roger Scruton
#34. In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#35. The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty
Mark Twain
#36. Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth
Eric Hoffer
#37. To whom are you for?
Is a good question to ask.
For one way sows to life,
The other to evil basks.
Kari L. Greenaway
#38. The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
Seamus Heaney
#40. The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and Now, the eternal present, the timeless time of the Oneness.
Human Angels
#42. Either God is real or he isn't; I'm ok with that.
Anonymous
#43. Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.
Bertrand Russell
#44. Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?
Florence Earle Coates
#45. I don't care about eternity. I was not their when it began, I will not be there when it ends
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#46. Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.
Charles Dickens
#48. Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
William Cowper
#49. The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
H.L. Mencken
