Religion Quote by W.H. Auden Download Open image “The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.” — W.H. Auden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Religion Truth
Truth is objective because God exists outside ourselves; it is universal because God is above all; it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
“The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.” — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“In my thirty years of existence I've come to the realization that all talk of truth is nonsense. Because even though we assume truth… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth. — Pat Buckley Copy Share Image
“Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence; Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part. They taught me to express my… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“As his wife, Emilia must know Iago better than anybody else. She does not know, any more than the others, that he is malevolent,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the pleasures of… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Cassio is a ladies’ man, that is to say, a man who feels most at home in feminine company where his looks and good… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out, as they… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Our hunting fathers told the story Of the sadness of the creatures, Pitied the limits and the lack Set in their finished features; Saw… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image