Quotes About Truth

Anything can become a spiritual practice once you are willing to approach it that way—once you let it bring you to your knees and show you what is real, including who you really are, who other people are, and how near God can be when you have lost your way.

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there. The suffering comes from our reluctance to learn to walk in the dark.

when we run from darkness, how much do we really know about what we are running from? If we turn away from darkness on principle, doing everything we can to avoid it because there is simply no telling what it contains, isn't there a chance that what we are running from is God?

The last thing any of us needs is more information *about* God.

If I trust what I see on my phone more than what I see out my window, what does it mean to believe that the real world is not where I live?

Somewhere along the line we bought—or were sold—the idea that God is chiefly interested in religion. We believed that God's home was

This is one of the reasons why I remain a devoted student of the Bible: because what it says is so often not what I have been taught it says, or what I think it says, or what I want it to say.

about that too, ma'am," he said, writing up her citation, "but what made

Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can. If we want to hear and see more, even the parts that expose our scornfulness, we need partners from outside our ingroups to keep telling us how we sound.

Mom, why couldn't my story, my real life story have a happy ending - like in the books?" "No true love story has a happy ending; one always must die and leave the other. So there's never a totally happy ending.

But the truth is incapable of real harm. It is we who do harm, when we refuse to face what is real, because it's uncomfortable or inconvenient.

many who claimed to want the truth actually wanted anything but.

What I'm about—what I'm all about—is revealing something true. Something deep inside, that maybe you didn't even know existed. But that you need to share with the world.

When the truth emerges, it can't be ignored. Nor will it wait.

Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.

Memory is life experience. When we deny it, there's a hole where it should

You've got to stop listening to that tiny hysterical voice inside and start listening to the messages your body's been sending for weeks now. The hysterical voice is exactly that. Hysterical. It's highly emotional. It doesn't know the facts, and it's preventing you from seeing and believing them.

Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.

Every memory is real, but not all are based on fact. Time, forgetfulness, emotional need—any of these things can chip away at memory.

I think the reason that men are so very violent is that they know, deep in themselves, that they're acting out a lie, and so they're furious at being caught up in the lie. But they don't know how to break it…. They're in a rage because they are acting out a lie—which means that in some deep part of themselves they want to be delivered from it, are homesick for the truth.

absolutely no factual information whatsoever." JW would admit that his newly discovered grandson, Morgan Holbrook,

In the West, opinions, perceptions, loyalties, and, ultimately, votes are what matter when the goal is to change public policy-or for that matter, cultural patterns. Serious inquiry and questions of truth are often a mere diversion.

The monsters aren't always in the closet or under the bed. Sometimes they're right in front of you, only everyone thinks they're the good guys.

known as the middle." He tipped his head. "Yes. What about you? Big family?" "No. I'm an only child." It was part of the backstory she'd made up before coming to the island; it was also partly true. "I used to wish I had a big family." "It's not all it's cracked up to be," he said dryly. "A lot of noise and chaos." "And love," she suggested, feeling an ache that went deep into her