Quotes About Truth

Was it true? She had to know. She felt the love and the hatred in her heart tearing her in two, and realized that she would kill for the truth. And so she decided – she would go through with it. She would become this man's wife, always by his side, holding his fate in her hands, delaying the time of his punishment. She would give him a chance to earn her forgiveness.

if all truth has its source in God and if all truth is unified, then one thing we know to be a fact is that if there is a contradiction between an interpretation of Scripture and an interpretation of what God has created, then one or both of those interpretations is incorrect.

In his commentary on Titus 1:12, for example, Calvin states: "All truth is from God; and consequently, if wicked men have said anything that is true and just, we ought not to reject it; for it has come from God.

Indeed, truth itself may be defined as that which corresponds to reality as perceived by God.

All truth meets at the top. This is so because all truth is God's truth. It is not only His truth because He possesses it and He yields sovereign control over it, but also because He is the source and fountainhead of all truth. He is the source of all truth not only because all truth derives from Him but because He is the necessary condition for all apprehension of truth.

the most certain sciences are like things lit up by the sun so that they may be seen. But it is God who gives the light. Reason is in our minds as sight in our eyes, and the eyes of the mind are the senses of the soul. Now, however pure it be, bodily sense cannot see any visible thing without the light of the sun. Hence, however perfect be the human mind, it cannot by reasoning know any truth without the light of God, which belongs to the aid of grace.

Cardinal Newman said that to be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant. The truth is that to be deep in real history, as opposed to Rome's whitewashed, revisionist, and often forged history, is to cease to be a Roman Catholic.

a God-centered view of truth demands that we affirm that all truth is God's truth. That which is true is true because God said it, created it, or decreed it.

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

Woody Allen once said that 90 percent of life is about showing up. Ninety percent of healing people in psychological pain is shutting up - at least long enough to let them bleed the truth. That sounds easy, but it isn't. (68)

Like most of the connections that explain the pain in our hearts, he couldn't bring it to mind. He couldn't see the truth because it was too big and it was right in front of him.

the best lies told were the ones we tell ourselves.

I beg you to understand and accept that no matter what name, I am what I am.

Drukpa Kunley, the Master of Truth, himself said, 'If you think I have revealed any secrets, I apologize; If you think this a medley of nonsense, just enjoy it!' Such sentiments, here, I fully endorse!

There's a scarcity of the authentic in our culture. "So many people are liars:

Mark Twain said, "There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

Everyone sees what you appear to be," observed Machiavelli, "few really know what you are.

Honest, Blake, take no notice," Joe said. "He's a fart on the surface, but scratch underneath and he can sometimes smell a bit better.

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

There are no secrets . . . just stuff you haven't learned yet.)

The men the Americans now call 'the Greatest Generation' were not all the selfless heroes they are often portrayed to be: a proportion of them were also thieves, plunderers and abusers of the worst kind.