Charles Sumner Quotes

I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.

There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.

Everything has an end.

Everything comes to an end.

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

Truth - is as old as God-.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.

There is no religion higher than Truth.

It is said that in death, all things become clear.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.

Even the best intentions turn around one day... Nobody's right all the time.

Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

Time touches all things with a destroying hand.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.