Philip Pullman Quotes

I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

For the truth there is no deadline.

Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.

To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is, in truth, not the kind that science will or should ever admit. We believers mean something different by the word: something that puts faith permanently in the category of irreproducible results.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.

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.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.

Lies are beginning to be solidified and made into historical fact…. The truth is all I want for history.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.

The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

Truth - is as old as God-.

Everything passes, only truth remains.

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.

In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.

Error is created; truth is eternal.

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

Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood