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  • Hence it may be plain what is meant by the means by which divine providence acts in order that man may be man and be perfected in understanding, and that these means are called by the common term truths.

    Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • When people tell stories, myths, that get at the very basic questions, the very basic elements of the human condition, the question of origins, that kind of thing, they tell stories that will often contain truths.

    RCIA Presentation: The Old Testament 2007

  • When people tell stories, myths, that get at the very basic questions, the very basic elements of the human condition, the question of origins, that kind of thing, they tell stories that will often contain truths.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • The means by which man becomes man and is perfected in understanding are collectively called truths.

    Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • For if anyone thinks about these, not from discrete degrees or degrees of height but from continuous degrees or degrees of breadth, he is not able to perceive anything about them from causes, but only from effects; and to see from effects only is to see from fallacies, from which come errors, one after another; and these may be so multiplied by inductions that at length enormous falsities are called truths.

    Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • O Father, Lord of heaven and earth -- He so styles His Father here, to signify that from Him of right emanates all such high arrangements. because thou hast hid these things -- the knowledge of these saving truths. from the wise and prudent -- The former of these terms points to the men who pride themselves upon their speculative or philosophical attainments; the latter to the men of worldly shrewdness -- the clever, the sharp-witted, the men of affairs.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • And up until I was about 12 I felt myself relatively safe in the womb of these received "truths."

    Both Surprising and Subtle 2010

  • Tea Party darling and Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul spoke last week like the political novice he is -- revealing unfiltered GOP "truths."

    Leo W. Gerard: GOP Wants a Country by Corporations for Corporations 2010

  • And up until I was about 12 I felt myself relatively safe in the womb of these received "truths."

    Both Surprising and Subtle 2010

  • What are you doing on this website besides trying to exclude those who don't subscribe to your unsubstantiated "truths."

    Edwards: I'll Travel The World To Fix U.S.'s Global Image 2009

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