One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
Interpretation
The honest search for truth is ultimately beneficial and harmless.
This quote emphasizes the importance of seeking the truth in a sincere manner. It suggests that, despite any potential challenges or opposition one might face in this pursuit, being truthful and earnest in the quest for knowledge and understanding will never lead to harmful outcomes in the long term.
In practice
During a motivational speech about integrity and personal values.
Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).
Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we speak her truly magic word fiat, "let it be." It is the creative word, the word God used to create the universe.
Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.
Every tomorrow is determined by every today.
Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo's blood water in the morning. All the life gone out of it, but his blood just the same, his blood and my sweat, washed down in their stupidity or cruelty or whatever it was that made them let it happen.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!
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