Quotes About Truth

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

As we live together in Scripture as "Our One True Story of God for the Whole World," we come to know its authority in and through Jesus Christ.22 Anything less reduces Scripture to a collection of facts or feelings.

I write not for sensation, but for Truth. I leave judgement to the hearts of my good Readers everywhere.

You say in your letter the historian writes the truth. Forgive me, I must disagree. The historian writes a truth. The memoirist writes a truth. The novelist writes a truth. And so on.

I wish I could claim I faced my first day of apostasy with courage and certainty. Yet in truth, I had never felt more afraid.

Don't believe everything you read.

I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.

Subjectivism maintains that there are no objective moral truths.

Though all I whisper in your ear is true, truth's not always evident or just; sometime's it's brutal as a fist. You scratch your head. You wonder what to do. You have no choice. You must persist.

Its impossible to invest your soul in a compromise.

What was once an open space between law and freedom, one governed by character and truth, is now deserted, so law must now do what character has abandoned.

When the Church loses the Word of God it loses the very means by which God does his work. In its absence, therefore, a script is being written, however unwittingly, for the Church's undoing, not in one cataclysmic moment, but in a slow, inexorable slide made up of piece by tiny piece of daily dereliction.

God waits on us to admit him so that he can make his love real. That is how so many people think. And this is how much religion outside of Christian faith has thought about God's love, too.

Our world is being shaken to its very foundations. Instead of offering great thoughts about God, the meaning of reality, and the gospel, there are evangelical churches that are offering only little therapeutic nostrums that are sweet but mostly worthless. One even wonders whether some current churchgoers might even be resistant were they to encounter a Christianity that is deep, costly, and demanding.

We are summoned to know him only on his terms. He is not known on our terms. This summons is heard in and through his Word. It is not heard through our intuitions.

However, there is a proviso here. Scripture will prove sufficient if we are able to receive from it all that God has put into it.

It is true, of course, that great preachers are always few and far between in any age. But in every age there should be enough preachers to do the job, preachers who are conscientious, who know what it is to labor over Scripture during the week and then on Sunday deliver its truth with some conviction, with some insight, with some depth, and with some application to life, and in the Holy Spirit's power.

No, youngsire, the truth. It's a whimsy of mine; at table we speak of each other with candor." "Only at table?" "Isn't that enough? We spend the rest of the day repairing the damage.

Life, I've learned, is not an affair of joy.

Science cannot promise eternal truths; only the elimination of false hypotheses and the establishment of what is currently the most likely explanation of an aspect of reality

A veces, en medio del dolor, llegamos a dudar de la realidad de lo que hemos vivido.

Habría sido capaz de ver en su regreso algo distinto del oportunismo. Pero ni siquiera me permitió esa mentira.