Henry Adams Quotes

I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying to belong to the truth.

Deep truth is imageless.

We shall now cease using the eloquent language (Arabic) …. We would fain speak in the Persian tongue that perchance the people of Persia, one and all, may become aware of the utterances of the merciful Lord, and come forth to discover the Truth.

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

A mathematical theorem can be true whether or not it is realized in the world.

Only love is real...everything else is illusion

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday

I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths... I can see much to admire in all religions... But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth.

Truth - is as old as God-.

All religions are true but none are literal.

The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.

Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.

The word is a sort of deliverance from the shifting world of appearances. The central teaching of the New Testament is that those who accept the word acquire wisdom and at the same time some identification with the eternal.

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.

Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.

God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists.

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.