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Quotes About Truth

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can only be true by accident. A faith worth having is faith worth discussing and testing.
~ James Luther Adams
The Bible is more to be admired than the Louvre Museum, and the Gospel of John is perhaps its Mona Lisa.
~ James M. Hamilton Jr.
if we will listen carefully to the Bible, it will proclaim to us the glory of God. If we do not hear this, the problem is with us, not the Bible.
~ James M. Hamilton Jr.
Without the Bible's bad news, its good news will have no meaning.
~ James M. Hamilton Jr.
There is a difference between seeking to know things for the sake of knowledge itself and being willing to undergo renunciation to be possessed by the truth.
~ James M. Houston
Satan mounts his mutiny against God through a deceitful stronghold: God is untrustworthy. In subtle and not-so-subtle ways, he places God's heart on trial by whispering insidious lies: "God is holding back on you. He wants you to jump through hoops in order to earn His love. He's stingy. He doesn't have your best interest in mind. You're better off trusting in yourself. Your resources and functional saviors work better then waiting and trusting in Him.
~ James MacDonald
God's Word doesn't change, the message doesn't shift. It can't be compromised in any way. It's where we stand firm.
~ James MacDonald
Satan's kryptonite is separation through slander. He slanders God to us and us to God.
~ James MacDonald
This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.
~ James MacDonald
We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, "I don't need God!" We must demolish every non-God story of life. We must pulverize every God-is-not-good life narrative.
~ James MacDonald
When the people of God are not told the works of God, they lose the wonder of God, and everyone does that which is right in his or her own eyes.
~ James MacDonald
John 8:44 says Satan is a liar and the father of lies. He captures and conquers men's lives through his convincing lies, often nullifying good intentions with wrongful actions that seemed manly in the moment but in the end lacked the balancing power of clarity.
~ James MacDonald
As a follower of Jesus through faith in Him, the Holy Spirit is your only hope of ever consistently acting like a man. He is the courage to make right choices, the guide toward truth and away from error, the source of our comfort, and the provider of our strength. His primary tool is the Word of God.
~ James MacDonald
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
~ James MacDonald
When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are.
~ James MacDonald
Love is what we need in friendship when we stumble, and truth is what we need when we stray.
~ James MacDonald
God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.
~ James MacDonald
A quality man examines his heart, exposing the fears that generate the lies that lead to sin.
~ James MacDonald
Watch out for the people who say that all is good between them and God but have no interest in being reconciled with the people whom their sin has injured.
~ James MacDonald
Yet many are living that very life, deluded by weak preaching and deceived by biblical illiteracy into thinking grace coddles the unrepentant.
~ James MacDonald
If we are to use the Bible effectively, then we must use it the way God wrote it – in narrative form. Our team rejects the notion that the Bible is simply an encyclopedia of disconnected Bible verses. God's Word is less like a cookbook and more like a novel.
~ James MacDonald
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
~ James Madison
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
~ James Madison
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
~ James Madison