Quotes About Truth

Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.

The true church is not made of creeds and forms, nor is it contained in walls of wood and stone; the heart of man is its temple and the Spirit of truth is the one guide into all Truth. When men learn to turn within to the Spirit of truth, who is in each one for his light and inspiration, the differences between the churches of man will be eliminated, and the one church will be recognized.

You'll find that as you grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self you've been all along.

His spells portrayed the spirit as a frail thing, contstantly under attack and in need of stength, always threatening to die inside you. Inman found this notion dismal indeed, since he had been taught by sermon and hymn to hold as truth that the soul of man never dies.

People don't change, Lola said. Maybe you're still young enough to pretend that's not true. People are who they are, and everybody around them has to take it or go somewhere else.

A deep belief that your moment in time is the pinnacle, the only standard of judgment extending from the creation of light until the black apocalypse, that what you believe right now is eternal truth because you believe it so fervently—those deep beliefs so crucial at the moment but none of them more permanent than a puff of air across a palmful of dry talcum.

I don't know facts, and probably there aren't any to know. Whatever crazy thing people want to believe, that's what they call it, a fact.

deep belief that your moment in time is the pinnacle, the only standard of judgment extending from the creation of light until the black apocalypse, that what you believe right now is eternal truth because you believe it so fervently—those deep beliefs so crucial at the moment but none of them more permanent than a puff of air across a palmful of dry talcum

How would you ever come to know God's name for that star? – You wouldn't, He holds it close, the boy said. It's a thing you'll never know. It's a lesson that sometimes we're meant to settle for ignorance. Right there's what mostly comes of knowledge [boy tips his chin at the battlefield]

oftentimes these ministers of darkness tell us truths in little things, to betray us into deeds of greatest consequence.

You can put your boots in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits. - You can say whatever you want about something, but that doesn't change what it is.

F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.

Do you think they killed Oswald?" "No," Christopher said. "If I'm right about how they handled him, it would have been wasteful. He didn't know who they were. They must have told him they'd get him out after the shooting, set him up as a hero under a fake identity. He would have believed that.

All but a few of those messages of concern to the Senate and much of the commentary in the news media had come from people who held radical beliefs with evangelical passion and would spring ferociously to their defense at the slightest sign that they were being questioned. Hammett knew their minds: Correctness was virtue; belief was personal validity; doctrine was truth. All else was evil.

The lie of the devil consists of this: that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without Gods word. " —TEMPTATION

By sheer grace, God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world. " —LIFE TOGETHER

Christ ... is truth spoken in the concrete moment, the address which puts a man in the truth before God. " —CHRISTOLOGY

The devil... takes the word of God's grace in his hand and whispers to us: God is a God of grace; he will not take our sins so seriously.

The Christian surely must be a person of passion rather than of reasonableness; of discernment rather than gullibility.

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

Nothing can compensate for a lack of authenticity.

Grace strips away the tin, rips off the masks, helps us to be ourselves so that when we speak of our faith it rings true.

Second, always speak the truth without fear.

The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God—not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice. —A. W. Tozer3