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Twenty Five Quotes from the Saints about Truth

Many in the world today are discovering that not everything we believe is actually true.  The following quotes are attributed to the Saints.  Hopefully they will help us to understand the meaning of Truth.

1.   Anyone who seeks Truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.

St. Edith Stein

St. Edith Stein
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2.  Truth is not private property.

St. Augustine

St. Augustine of Hippo
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3.  Truth suffers but never dies.

St. Teresa of Avila

St. Teresa of Avila
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4.  Proclaim the Truth and do not be silent through fear.

St. Catherine of Siena

4.  Proclaim the Truth and do not be silent through fear.

St. Catherine of Siena

St. Catherine of Siena
5.  Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

St. Vincent de Paul

St. Vincent de Paul
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6.  He is an all-powerful God, who is Truth

St. Faustina

St. Faustina
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7.  Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit, which it sours to the Truth.

St. John Paul II

8.  There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.

St. John Paul II

St. John Paul II
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9.  I can nourish myself on nothing but Truth.

St. Therese of Lisieux

10.  Jesus said, ” I am the Truth” and it is your duty and mine to speak the truth, then it is up to the person who hears it whether to accept or reject it.

St. Teresa of Calcutta

Bl. Teresa of Calcutta
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11.  When lies have been accepted for some time, Truth always stands with an air of novelty.

St. Clement of Alexandria…Church Father

12.  True happiness is to rejoice in the Truth, for to rejoice in theTruth is to rejoice in you, O God, who are the Truth, you my God, my true Light, to whom I look for salvation.

St. Augustine

13.  To lovers of the Truth, nothing can be put before God and Home in Him.

St. Basil

St. Basil the Great
14.  Do not accept anything as Love which lacks Truth.

St Edith Stein

15.  If I do not speak the truth, I become a slave of the father of lies and beome a member of the Father of lies.

St. Jerome Emiliani

St. Jerome Emiliani        Patron Saint of Orphans
16.  Speak the Truth in a million voices.  It is silence that kills.

St. Catherine of Siena

17.  Sin makes a man a coward, a life in the Truth of Christ makes him bold.

St. John Chrysostom

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18.  For He who is true God is also True man; and there is no deception in this union, where the loftiness of God and the lowliness of man are brought together.

St. Leo the Great

St. Leo the Great
19.  No one in the world can change Truth.  What we can do and should do is to seek Truth and to serve it when we have found it.

St. Maximilian Kolbe

St. Maximilian Kolbe
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20.  Serve the Lord in fear and Truth.

St. Polycarp…Church Father

St. Polycarp
21.  God is supreme Truth; and to be humble is to walk in Truth.

St. Teresa of Avila.

22.  Charity and kindness unwedded to Truth are not charity and kindness but deceit and vanity.

St. Ignatius of Loyola

St. Ignatius Loyola
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23.  My longing for truth was a single prayer.

St Edith Stein

24.  Seek the Truth, Do the Good,  Love the Beautiful!

St. John Henry Newman

St. John Henry Newman
25.  What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

St. John Chrysostom

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