Quotes About Truth

Jesus shows us that healthy Christians do not avoid conflict. His life was filled with it! He was in regular conflict with the religious leaders, the crowds, the disciples—even his own family. Out of a desire to bring true peace, Jesus disrupted the false peace all around him. He refused to spiritualize conflict avoidance.

Por qué? No puedes tener la paz verdadera del reino de Cristo con mentiras o fingimientos.

Pain has an amazing ability to open us to new truth and to get us moving.

Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality.

El sufrimiento tiene la asombrosa capacidad de abrirnos a nuevas verdades y de ponernos en movimiento.

God speaks to us in and through the Word.

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

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Could your data be wrong?

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat

What shall I say to you who will one day hear this last act for yourselves? You will—because whatever else shall pass away, this must remain.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

Faith cannot tell us who is right and who is wrong, because each will simply assert that his or her faith is the true one.

Wer komplexe Wirklichkeit leugnet, gibt sich gern objektiv und bezichtigt die Problembewussten der Wirklichkeitsflucht und der Träumerei.

mundo quiere ser engañado".

How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.

If it's reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.

That's the thing with reality, he said, you can't repeat it to order, you can't correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.

Qué somos, en definitiva, sin nuestras mentiras?

the inevitable tension between knowledge and innocence

Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose that fulfils our needs as an artist or designer.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.