Quotes About Truth

An open rebuke is better than hidden love! —Proverbs 27:5

But all of these things now exist. (What? Hogwarts isn't real?)

What bothers me most about evolutionary evidence is that it hinges more on faith than faith does.

Without an understanding of trial by evidence, trial by innuendo might easily triumph.

But then, the Holy Spirit came to me, and I was reminded of something Saint Augustine said: 'Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

No, not secrets so much as just the Secret. What he knew and had not told anybody, what he knew about his mother that had caused the divorce, what he knew, what he knew--- the Secret.

We have grown away from knowledge, away from knowing what something is really like, toward knowing only what somebody else says it is like. There seems to be a desire to ignore the truth in favor of drama.

If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners.

Then we knew he was lying.

He realized that he was not always right, was, indeed, often not right, and at the same time he found that others were not always wrong.

The rule that science is the only way to know something is itself unscientific; it cannot be tested. So the claim that only science can demonstrate truth actually flunks its own test, since it cannot validate itself!

Facing issues of this magnitude, it's unreasonable to think that anyone comes to the investigation with no personal hopes or preexisting beliefs. However

The external evidence of Jesus' resurrection confirms the truth we have received via God's written revelation.

there is an important difference between the apostle martyrs and those who die for their beliefs today. Modern martyrs act solely out of their trust in beliefs that others have taught them. The apostles died for holding to their own testimony that they had personally seen the risen Jesus. Contemporary martyrs die for what they believe to be true. The disciples of Jesus died for what they knew to be either true or false.

I need to bring my illusions to the truth instead of giving truth to my illusions.

The truth is the truth whether you agree with it or not. The truth is not subject to your interpretation.

Guilt asks for punishment, and its request is granted. Not in truth, but in the world of shadows and illusions built on sin.10

You dream of a desert, where mirages are your rulers and tormentors, yet these images come from you.

Nothing is more important to your marriage than your theology (what you believe about God), and nothing is more important to your theology (and hence your marriage) than the gospel.

Needless to say, she grew up with the parents Senderovsky could only dream of, the kind that did not watch the state television of their adopted land with its screaming chyrons and grim blond hosts and unimaginative, murderous lies. Masha loved her parents, loved the language of her parents, and wanted Natasha to know the "gift" of her country's culture. But Senderovsky, despite his Petrogradsky affectations, was still the man from Elektrosila.

Do not believe the Judeo-Christian lie!

Whatever else could be said of Eunice Park, she was perfectly true.

The best fiction is the fiction of self-delusion. It contrasts the banality of our self-made fictions against the hopelessness of the world as it really is. The worst thing that we can tell you at a place like Princeton is that you can have it all." He scanned the small group around him and brushed the leathery buttons holding his vest tightly over his large body. "Well," he said. "You can't.

Kahneman later wrote: This was a joyous moment, in which I understood an important truth about the world: because we tend to reward others when they do well and punish them when they do badly, and because there is regression to the mean, it is part of the human condition that we are statistically punished for rewarding others and rewarded for punishing them.