Quotes About Truth

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

In the end, I still have the same hope as my father - that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.

I think 'Jesus' is the most offensive word in anyone's life. When we mention Jesus, He is the only one who says 'I am God. I am holy. I am the only way to a truthful life.' No one - not Mohammad, not Buddha, not anyone says that they were holy, not anyone says that they were God, not anyone says that they faced the devil face to face and won.

If we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, then we shouldn't be recognizing it only as a book of historical and economic significance.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.