Quotes About Truth

When you got saved, God deposited deep down within you all of the righteousness that belongs to Jesus Christ. But you can't benefit unless you are willing to dig down deep with the shovel of truth so that God will release a brand-new you surrounded by the secure protection of a breastplate of His righteousness.

Our citizenship is in heaven" (Philippians 3:20a). That's our home. That's the kingdom to which we belong. We just work down here. Understanding this key spiritual truth is fundamental to all we do on earth.

God tells us that when we do not listen to His Son and apply His truth, He will shake up our lives in order to get our attention (see Hebrews 12:10-11).

Only God gets to define Himself. And only God gets to reveal who He is and how He operates in history. He is who He is, not who you say He is.

God's Word is equal to God's person since the Word was God.

La fe nunca implica falta de acción. La fe es un deporte participativo. Significa actuar conforme a la verdad que Dios dice. O como me oirás decir varias veces: La fe actúa como si algo fuera así aunque no lo sea, para que así sea solo porque Dios así lo dijo.

El fundamento de la oración del reino es saber lo que Dios ya ha dicho.

We need an objective standard that isn't tied to our emotions, thoughts, or desires.

God's Word is perfect, ever relevant, speaking to all issues, for all of life.

Faith is directly tied to an action done in response to a revealed truth.

God's Word is perfect, ever relevant, speaking to all issues, for all of life.  

Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness. As long as there is desire, we will not be safe

The past was neither as good nor as bad as we suppose: it was just different. If we tell ourselves nostalgic stories, we shall never engage the problems that face us in the present - and the same is true if we fondly suppose that our own world is better in every way. The past really is another country: we cannot go back. However, there is something worse that idealising the past - or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it.

Seen from the satellite countries, the Soviet version of recent history was palpably false; but for many Russians themselves it contained more than a grain of truth.

The truth of authenticity is different from the truth of honesty. To be authentic is to live as one wishes others to live; to be honest is to admit that this is impossible.

However, there is something worse than idealizing the past—or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it.

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True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does

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Strange living. I have always had a strange life. Never knowing what was true, living in a world of dreams. Christ, I told myself, I've got to get up. But with the weight of my thoughts, I felt like I couldn't breathe. Why did I keep taking on all of this - this shit and keep feeling it even after it had passed through a hundred million times?

I didn't know what strange games were. To me, it was all part of living. A strange living. I had never known the truth so I had never cared for the truth, rationality or reason. I lived in a world of dreams, good and bad.

Strange living. I always had a strange life. Never knowing what was true, living in a world of dreams. Christ, I told myself, I've got to get up. But with the weight of my thoughts, I felt I couldn't breathe. Why did I keep taking on all of this – this shit and keep feeling it even after it had passed through me a hundred million times?

We do not need such things to help us to see God," I countered. "We have His Word, and that is enough.