Quotes About Truth

La inteligencia verdadera se da cuando la mente y el corazón se conectan. Entonces es cuando ves la verdad de una forma tan nítida e inequívoca que no tienes ni que pensar en ella.

But the truth is that the fantasy is often better than the reality. I had just learned that lesson. Most men eventually learn that lesson. Mystery may have thought he wanted to live with two girls who love each other as much as they love him, but chances are they'd get on his nerves, team up against him, and eventually make him just as miserable as he'd been with Katya.

We must take into account all reality and strive for a balanced answer to our problems.

we ask the following questions before we listen to gossip: What is your reason for telling me this? Where did you get your information? Have you gone directly to the source? Have you personally checked out all the facts? Can I quote you if I check this out?2

18). If you want the truth to set you free, you have to know who the Truth is, not just what it is.

Once we have fallen in love with God and all that is true and good, we will naturally (or better, supernaturally) fall in love with all others created in the image of God. Whoever loves God must also love his brother (1 John 4:21). The love of God simply compels us to do so.

To confess (homologeo) means to acknowledge or to agree. You confess your sin when you say what God says about it: "I entertained a lustful thought, and that's a sin"; "I treated my spouse unkindly this morning, and that was wrong"; "Pride motivated me to seek that board position, and pride doesn't belong in my life.

The devil is persistent, but we must never let him set the agenda. We don't negotiate with the enemy, nor do we let him distract us from our calling in life. In the face of opposition, our answer is always the same: I am a child of God, saved by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I choose to live my life by faith according to what God says is true in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus is the Truth, and He is the One who sets the captive free. Power for the believer comes in knowing and choosing the truth. We are to pursue truth because we already have all the power we need in Christ (see Ephesians 1:18-19). Furthermore, people in bondage are not liberated by what I do as a pastor, but by what they choose to believe, confess, renounce, and forgive.

Someone once asked me, How are Christians supposed to act? Christianity is not an act; it is a real thing. We cannot be right with God and not be real.

The father of lies can block your effectiveness as a Christian if he can deceive you into believing that you are nothing but a product of your past—subject to sin, prone to failure, and controlled by your habits.

Many Christians in the Western church attempt to live as though the devil does not exist, having

What a strange thing, she thought, to find out one day that you had built your whole life on a mistake, and the next to discover that this fact would allow you to have your dearest wish.

She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable truth that it could influence her actions, block her desires. A sordid necessity to be grappled with.

That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me.

Well, no one ever said the truth would make you happy—only free.

On the other hand, as every cop knows, lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

The first casualty of war is the truth.

nodded, "A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are more.

lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

willful ignorance.

When you have excluded the impossible, said Sherlock Holmes, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Yet, there is something about a person's eyes. . . they speak their own language, from the heart and soul. They speak love, grief, hate, innocence, and guilt. They speak the truth even as the person is lying.