1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Contexto: I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
— Pope Urban VIII Pope 1568 - 1644
Pope Urban VIII on Private Revelation http://www.medjugorje.org/purban.htm (2001).
Whether or not Urban VIII said this is debated. He did make a public statement about private revelations and their dissemination in the Catholic Church in his Constitution, Sanctissimus Dominus Noster of 1625-03-13.
Misattributed quotes
— Enya Irish singer, songwriter, and musician 1961
Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)
„What if he is a true believer, have you thought about that?“
— Charles Stross, The Laundry Files
“A true believer in what? The prosperity gospel? New Republican Jesus who rewards his faithful flock for their faith with the ability to make money fast? That’s self-serving cant, and you know it. Wish-fulfillment as religion.” A twitch of the cheek: Persephone unamused. “Don’t get me started on the gap between the Vatican and their flock.”
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 7, “Communion” (p. 125)
— Barry Long Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926 - 2003
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
„It ’s no matter what you do
If your heart be only true,
And his heart was true to Poll.“
— Francis Burnand British comic writer and dramatist 1836 - 1917
True to Poll.
— Theodore Parker abolitionist 1810 - 1860
Two Sermons (1853), Sermon II : Of the Position and Duty of a Minister.
Contexto: If you lend me your ears, I shall doubtless take your hearts too. That I may not lead you into any wrong, let me warn you of this. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.
„Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.“
— Orison Swett Marden American writer 1850 - 1924
— Rachel Scott American murder victim 1981 - 1999
Fuente: As quoted in No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine https://books.google.com/books?id=kI4YwhBD7FgC&pg=PA149 (2002), by Brooks Brown and Rob Merritt, New York: Lantern Books, p. 149
„What you believe is without a clue. What I believe is always true.“
— Ron English American artist 1959
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
— Byron Katie American spiritual writer 1942
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
„It is true if you believe it to be true.“
— Louise L. Hay American writer 1926 - 2017
Fuente: You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death
— Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926
Fuente: Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World
— Robert LeFevre American libertarian businessman 1911 - 1986
Fuente: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I, (1999), p. 19
— Jerry Coyne, libro Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible
Fuente: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 63
— Martin Luther seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483 - 1546
Large Catechism 1.1-3, F. Bente and W.H.T. Dau, tr.<cite>Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books of the Ev. Lutheran Church</cite>(St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921), 565. http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/catechism/web/cat-03.html
