Quotes About Truth

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

What you remember... is not what they think you will remember, it is often not

If women could see what is real & true & how the elegant possession of what's in each of our individual hearts is what matters more than anything.

For if people could see- if women especially could see- what is real and true and how the elegant possession of what is in each of our individual hearts is what matters more than anything.

It takes the Word of God plus the Spirit of God to equal the Truth of God.

How can we have revival when we value a book the early Church didn't have over the Holy Spirit they did have?

Many people's circumstances dictate their stances. They become powerless victims of other people's actions and attitudes. They wrongly believe that their physical situation is their condition. The truth is, you do not always have power over what happens to you, but you do have complete control over what happens in you.

False prophets are not motivated by love, but are motivated by a need to be noticed.

Any thought that does not inspire hope is rooted in a lie.

Fear clouds our convictions and distorts our discernment.

We give the devil permission to punish us because we think his lies are true. When we are tormented because of lies, we need a revelation of the truth of God so that we can break the steel bars of deception.

We've carried our picket signs in demonstrations, preached hellfire and brimstone on the corner of every major city in America, and boycotted major corporations in the name of God. We've ignored the simple truth of honor that literally transformed entire kingdoms in the days of Daniel and Joseph. Because Daniel and Joseph demonstrated honor to the pagan kings they served, both Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar eventually acknowledged the hand of God on their lives.

Our eyes and ears are two of the main gateways to our souls. It is vital that we steward what we hear and see so that seeds of deception do not get planted in the soil of our souls.

We have to remind ourselves that we are Kingdom people destined to live in righteousness, peace and joy. We continually must cultivate the garden of our hearts by feeding the soil of our minds with truth. We must refuse to believe lies about ourselves that sow weed seed into our beings, seeds that destroy our confidence and undermine our destiny. And finally, we must water the orchard of our hearts with words that build, edify and comfort us, realizing that we are the beloved of God.

The Holy Spirit rebuilds our "walls of salvation" by correcting our old, broken patterns of thinking and establishing new strongholds of truth that bring health and strength to every dimension of our beings.

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES It is a pity that we often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other. ~Empress Irene~

Though a picture tells a story, it may not reveal the truth.

Truth is a pathless land.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

Truth can be told in an instant, forgiveness can be offered spontaneously, but reconciliation is the work of lifetimes and generations.

My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn and reveres truth. It lives open eyed and wholeheartedly with the darkness that is woven ineluctably into the light of life and sometimes seems to overcome it. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory.

An idea handed to me in the earliest years of my life of conversation comes back with new resonance—the idea of a kinship between the spirituality of the scientist and the spirituality of the mystic: a constant endeavor to discern truth while staying open to everything you do not yet, cannot yet, know.

And all that 'don't want to lose you' is utter bullshit. But just in case it's true, guess what? You did lose me. Just now.

Life was kind and full of chances. Sometimes we didn't take them. Sometimes we hid our truth and acted out of fear. Sometimes we turned away and closed the door.