Quotes About Truth

No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a comin'. —Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger

Hanley said. "We've replaced them with corrected versions." "Corrected?" Cooper asked. "Explaining how the Apollo missions were faked to bankrupt the Soviet Union.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Jesus asked, "But what about you? … Who do you say I am?" (Matt. 16:15 NIV).

To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!

Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient.

Where ignorance is bliss…" " 'Tis folly to be wise.

These aren't

The lie would grow into a disease. Cancer, probably.

Scraping away the dirt from a secret doesn't always set you free. Sometimes it's the very opposite.

Gossip sometimes becomes a reality for some.

It isn't Prada that the devil wears but a smile that belies the truth of his intent.

A criminal case is an assemblage of facts and details in an order that presents a story to a jury. Some pieces of the puzzle are magnified and others are diminished. In some cases, pieces are hidden. Or, as in the case of Alan Dawson, tampered with. Meg

You can't change what a person knows, even if it is wrong," the nurse had said.

Jesus, some thought, would get a new lawyer.

I saw her as she showed herself to the world: fun, smart, sexy. Funny how those things are often a smoke screen from one's true self. It's easy to act all those things. Up for adventure. Head nods at complex scenarios when she's not really listening. Ready for bedroom play even when there is no bedroom. In the beginning, Sophie was all those things. I didn't know they were a construct. I thought they were key parts of who she was.

do with the fact that she and Sarah's father weren't

The truth is surviving childhood trauma isn't the same thing as living.

To a large degree we have preached our own version of the knowledge of good and evil as though it were the message of salvation. We need to confess that we have sinned in the gravest fashion by frequently loving our version of truth and ethics more than people, and even God himself. For one cannot genuinely love God while refusing to love one's neighbor (1 John 4:20).

Jesus came into this world and died on the cross to blow apart all the deceptive mental pictures of God that we've been enslaved to since the original fall and that lie at the root of all idolatry and sin

For we are only as healthy as our picture of God is accurate. The

Thus, to take the phrases in Acts and make them into a magical incantation upon which God s forgiveness rests is to grossly misunderstand the phrase and, consequently, grossly misportray the kind of God whom Scripture reveals. Beyond

Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living. I think it applies to faith as well. The unexamined faith is not worth believing.

This is the foundation of all sin: the lie that God is untrustworthy, the lie that God is not altogether loving and that he doesn't have our best interests in mind.