Quotes About Truth

Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

We all lie to serve a purpose, Eric. By omission or commission, we all know when to lie. Parents lie to children about reality all the time, a most heinous and culpable offense since it does not involve the way reality is perceived. But, then as now, lying can be seen as a sign of extreme care. It all has to do with the motive and ethic behind the lie, doesn't it?

The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.

We live in a world in which there is nothing that cannot be narrated, but nothing that needs to be either.

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is.

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid

Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

I've never liked euphemisms. I don't say "passed away." I say "dead.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2 Timothy 3:7)

but ignorance is widespread because most preachers never mention it.

Further, God referred to false knowledge in His words to Job in chapters 38ff. Specifically, in verse 2, God asks Job a rhetorical question wherein He expresses bemusement at Job's spiritual shallowness. He asks who it is that darkens, or obscures, God's counsel. Then He speaks of words that are without knowledge, referring to Job and his three friends who were all blind to the facts of Job's situation.

The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?"50

using the pseudo legitimacy of human religion and secular knowledge.

Feel-good answers are not enough. Twice, the book of Proverbs tells us, "There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death."51

This is part of Satan's current "Big Lie." His delusion.

Get into the Word regularly (John 17:17).

the truth of God for a lie" has had as a common practice in their idol worship the insane horror of child sacrifice.

After all, no one is comfortable being told that he or she is a sinner. In our marketing-oriented churches, making people comfortable and happy can easily become the primary thing.