Quotes About Truth

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Expirience is the oracle of truth

God desires for us to be the persons we were created to be: to be simply and purely ourselves, and in this state to love God and to let ourselves be loved by God. It is a double journey, really: finding God means allowing ourselves to be found by God. And finding our true selves means allowing God to find and reveal our true selves to us.

The gatekeeper at the first door asks, "Is it true?" The second gatekeeper asks, "Is it helpful?" The third gatekeeper asks, "Is it kind?

Merton wrote, "Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: the false self." With his typical insight, Merton identifies the false self as the person that we wish to present to the world, and the person we want the whole world to revolve around: Thus

lies, illusions, and self-serving excuses that cloud our minds make us less able to give and receive love.

Religious experiences are often dismissed—not out of doubt that they aren't real, but out of fear that they are real after all.

In order to communicate an essential truth, God offered us a parable: Jesus. Jesus is the parable of God. So for the Christian, if you want to learn about God, get to know Jesus.

Holy' is a word used to conceal a great deal of nonsense," Blasphet

Holy' is a word used to conceal a great deal of nonsense," Blasphet said. "If we disregard the evidence of our senses, won't that lead to madness?

Whatever he believed, he believed. It didn't matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.

He was like everybody in war. He believed God was on his side. Everybody got God on their side in a war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.

Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full.

God was forever generous with His gifts: hope, love, truth, and the belief in the indestructability of the good in all people.

Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. The lies they tell each other sound better to them than the truth does when it comes out of our mouths.

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That's what counts.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

I am not arguing with you—I am telling you.

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

I knewThat life was fiction in disguise.

my fate is my own, my heart remains free, not magic but wisdom reveals destiny

To know God as he is, is to love him as he is and to want to be like him.

Few are guided by principle any longer, only by what they prefer. "You have to decide what's right for you," we are told. In such a climate, the only remaining virtue is tolerance, and the only philosophies that are wrong are those that believe in truth.