Quotes About Truth

The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.

Christ is the explanation of all things, the key to life itself.

I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

The reality of the situation is life on Earth has not changed. We need facts, we need events, we need specifics on things.

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.

When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.

Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.

Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.

Evolution is amoral. Just because something is natural doesn't make it morally good ("the naturalistic fallacy"). Conversely, just because something is morally desirable doesn't make it true ("the moralistic fallacy").

Whereas we are inclined to equate the reality and the sense of the reality, these are different things—there can be a reality of God's presence and activity whether we feel it or not, and we can have a sense of God's reality and activity but the sense may be false.)

We can continue to try to make the phenomenon fit the world as we have known it, jamming it into a kind of procrustean bed of consensus reality. Or we can acknowledge that the world might be other than we have known it. Then we are free to see where our thinking leads us.

Lastly, experiencers are not motivated to believe in the "truth of their experiences. Often they prefer to believe that they have had some sort of bad dream, and become intensely distressed when they realize in the interview that they were not asleep when the experience began.

It seems clear to me at this time that we are not dealing with "false" or confabulated memories.

What is the homeland to which we are running? Christ said: "I am the Truth." You run through Him, you run to Him, and you rest in Him.

Love and justice mingle, truth and mercy meet

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

All Stories are True.

The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is a sort of nightmare. It is a sort of nightmare, and I'm trying to wake up from it. And as any nightmare, it's full of much that is unspeakable.