Quotes About Truth

You're seeing the world through your feelings. Not through truth. Not through God's eyes. If he's called you to something, he'll equip you, even if you don't know how.

Don't judge God's love for you on your circumstances, Nathan. Judge it on what you know to be true. God loves you, and He'll give you the strength to do what's right. Just stay the course. That's what God wants for you—everyday faith. Not . . ." John pointed at the wall.

God wants to break through the identities we've constructed for ourselves, the fears we have of discovery, to say, "I see you. I know you. I know everything about you, and yet I love you. Period. You don't have to fear the truth with Me because I already know it. I know exactly who you are, and I still died to save you.

Don't for one minute think that God has forgotten you or doesn't have your back. And don't base God's love or desire to help you on your opinion of yourself. Base it on who God says he is.

Secrets are always found out, and when they are, people get hurt.

wrong about Jenny always wearing it. She could have taken it off, packed it away, or buried it in the backyard.

You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell. But not every story is beautiful.

But heaven seems a place where truth cannot hurt. Here, the truth can be devastating.

It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.

Which was worse? Mourning the loss of something without knowing you never actually had it, or mourning the loss of what you thought you had and never had at all?

Fear is not only a leaden foe, but a liar as well. It was not as bad as I thought it would be, sitting there in a London department store on an ordinary Saturday.

understand there are no secrets to a charmed life. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's.

what we see is not always what is. And what is, we often cannot see until we train our eyes to see it.

I believe I have you to thank for reminding me that pictures on an urn, though lovely, are not real. Life is real, in all its complexity. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.

Remembering what you want about the past, even if it's not entirely true, keeps you from giving up on the present.

want her to see that I understand there are no secrets to a charmed life. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's.

I believe in justice too but I know that sometimes it is not delivered in the way it should be. Sometimes it is not delivered at all and the evil man walks free.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting—it has been found difficult and left untried." G.K. CHESTERTON What's Wrong with the World

We are both of us torn by the weight of knowing all these people cannot possibly be witches. If we speak in their defense, we become accused. If we say nothing, we condemn them falsely with our silence. What would God have us do?

incredulous. I decide in that moment to tell her the barest minimum.

there are no secrets to a charmed life. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to

When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.