Quotes About Truth

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

The Real War Will Never Get in the Books. And so good-bye to the war.

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

Develop convictions from your understanding of revelation, but take them no further; do not make absolute what the Bible dos not make absolute.

When people observe that your life is in harmony with the message, they may not believe, but they know in their conscience that they have met truth.

Whenever you conclude that God is unjust, you can know that you err biblically. Behind your misconception you will find the beautiful, gracious work of God.

Illegitimate self-justification takes place when you know you are guilty and seek to hide the fact. Few sins carry the profound ramifications that self-justification does.

When Jesus said He came "to seek and to save the lost," he meant that there are two kinds of people in the world: those that know they need saving, and those that don't know.

Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make your free." John 8:32 These words are carved over the doors of university buildings. Obviously, how the university and Jesus use this phrase differ. Jesus said of Himself, "I am Truth."1 And again, "If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."2

In your heart you know whether you are as close to God as you ought to be; keep your ears open to your conscience, your heart open to God and your eyes in the Word. 1

I lie and am lied to, but the result of my lie is mental leaps, memory, knowledge.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

The world does not need the church to talk about what is already possible. The work of the church is to battle the world's definition of what is believable and unbelievable.

prophetic preaching can take place only where the preacher is deeply embedded in the YHWH narrative.

Prophecy cannot be separated very long from doxology, or it will either wither or become ideology. Abraham

The truth that is variously enacted by such agents is not an idea or a proposition. It is rather a habit of life that simply (!) refuses the totalizing claims of power. The governor, on behalf of the empire, will continue to ask, "What is truth?" And the apostles will continue to give answer, uncommonly unintimidated: "'We must obey God rather than any human authority'" (Acts 5:29).14

The news enacted by Elisha is reperformed by Jesus. It is, subsequently, performed in many other venues, sometimes by the followers of Jesus, sometimes by others who stand alongside the faithful followers of Jesus. In every such performance of the news, it is Gospel truth enacted as practical transformation that settled power can neither enact nor prevent.

power is not free to disregard truth.

I intend to focus on the question of truth. That means I do not inquire about facticity-what happened-but what is claimed, what is asserted here about reality.

paraphrasing 1 Cor. 1:25) that the fictions of God are truer than the facts of men.13

I had come for certitude, but the poetic speech does not give certitude.

subversives in the face of totalism have always had to speak twice in the same utterance, once for the official record and once for the truth of bodily reality.