Quotes About Truth

Take Christ from Christianity, and you disembowel it; there is practically nothing left. Christ is the centre of Christianity, all else is circumference." (Basic Christianity, page 27)

These truth-seeking students gathered at a local pub on the campus of King's College, called the White Horse Inn, to debate the ideas of Luther.

Ele escreveu: "Nada é mais contrário à pregação pura e livre do evangelho do que os dilemas de um coração covarde".[85]

You will never have a knowledge of sin unless you have a true conception of the holiness of God.

Unless the Holy Ghost blesses the Word, we who preach the gospel are of all men most miserable, for we have attempted a task that is impossible. We have entered on a sphere where nothing but the supernatural will ever avail. If the Holy Spirit does not renew the hearts of our hearers, we cannot do it. If the Holy Ghost does not regenerate them, we cannot. If He does not send the truth home into their souls, we might as well speak into the ear of a corpse.

False teaching always does.

Spurgeon was once asked how he could reconcile the apparent contradiction between these two truths. He replied: "I never have to reconcile friends. Divine sovereignty and human responsibility have never had a falling out with each other. I do not need to reconcile what God has joined together."2

No man will preach the gospel aright who does not wholly believe it."5

Adamantly, Paul said, "You know I did not come tickling your ears like other speakers do. I did not try to exploit you." The apostle obviously did not buy into the tired mantra that so many chant today—while the message stays the same, the method is free to change.

Reality Testing—the ability to see things as they actually are, rather than the way you wish or fear they might be;

Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.

We don't need to be taught to lie, or to be selfish or cruel or vindictive—we need to be taught how not to.

That's all it was.

truth is the one thing no one needs to be protected from.

Only perspective brings truth into focus. Where you stand when you look at the facts will determine how they appear.

our minds can do strange things, can convince us of things that aren't real. Sometimes we see things that aren't really there, sometimes we don't see things that are. We're all experts at fictionalizing the truth.

We're desperate to be truly known by others; yet we go to incredible lengths to hide who we really are. We say we want truth, then rationalize it away when it gets too personal.

Propaganda is when a viewpoint is promoted regardless of truth. Art is when truth is rendered regardless of agenda.

Superstition, then and now, is not just a threat to the truth. It's also a threat to national security.

By the time Jesus came to earth, Israel's religious leaders had blinded the eyes of an entire nation as to who God really was and what He desired from His people.

Where do all the things you believed go, when all the supporting structure is found to be a myth? How do you know how or on what to take a moral stand, how do you behave when it turns out there are no cosmic rules, no categorical imperatives?

It is astounding that Google, whose corporate philosophy is 'don't be evil,' would enable evil by cooperating with China's censorship policies just to make a buck," he said in a press release. "… Many Chinese have suffered imprisonment and torture in the service of truth—and now Google is collaborating with their persecutors.

You can't argue with facts. You're not entitled to your own facts.

You talk about deus ex machina, well, we're talking about deus in machina. You start by thinking there's a god in the box. And then you find there isn't anything in the box. You put the god in the box.