Quotes About Truth

Truth reveals reality, and reality can be described as what we humans run into when we are wrong, a collision in which we always lose. Being

When our students accept the call of a servant leader to further the cause of Christ, it is time to begin considering how they can escape the strictly Christian subculture in order to shine their lights of truth into the dark places in our world. This will take great care and wisdom.

The sad truth is that people can be just as arrogant from belief, commitment, various associations, or simple egotism as from claimed knowledge.

And in this truth lies the secret of the easy yoke: the secret involves living as he lived in the entirety of his life—adopting his overall life-style. Following "in his steps" cannot be equated with behaving as he did when he was "on the spot." To live as Christ lived is to live as he did all his life.

Pastors now are mistakenly seen, and perhaps even see themselves, as teaching what Christians are supposed to believe (perhaps what we had better believe), not what is known and what can be known through fair inquiry.

Whatever your situation, there is nothing more important on earth than to dwell in the knowledge of Christ and to bring that knowledge to others.

I don't believe God messes with our minds. He is not mean, and if he has something to say to me, he will say it.

If we are to know the abundant provision of God's unlimited resources, we must also understand how Satan works to rob us of that experience. He does so by deceit.

voice. It cannot be stressed too much that the permanent address at which the word of God may be found is the Bible.     More

Put his words into practice and find them to be true.

Mystery" means, in the language of the New Testament, something that had long remained hidden but then came to be known for the first time. The

This not-knowing is a game of irresponsibility. It is a way of saying I'm not responsible. I'm an agnostic.

John 3:16 is not about forgiveness of sins, no matter the guy with rainbow hair in the end zone who's holding up that sign. John 3:16 is about life now.

everyone has been certain and wrong. Certainty is a psychological state that you can work up. You see a lot of this in religious groups. They are trying to work up certainty, but that is a terrible mistake. When you convey knowledge, you are giving people things they can test and find to be true in reality.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer forcefully states, "The only proper response to this word which Jesus brings with him from eternity is simply to do it."6

Bluntly, to serve God well we must think straight; and crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil. And when the crooked thinking gets elevated into group orthodoxy, whether religious or secular, there is always, quite literally, "hell to pay." That is, hell will take its portion, as it has repeatedly done in the horrors of world history.

we see a clear pattern: Satan's constant deception of human beings.

The life and words that Jesus brought into the world came in the form of information and reality.

If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that he knew how to live.

He does so by deceit.

Jesus referred to him as "a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:44 NRSV). Indeed, his whole kingdom is based on lies; he works by deceiving.

Keep in mind that God did not say that Job was wrong in what he said, but that he did not understand what he was saying.

the whole Bible—indeed, the whole of our life before God.

We can fail to know because we do not want to know - because what would be known would require us to believe and act in ways contrary to what we want.