Quotes About Truth

As she dressed that night, Lucy remembered Catherine's words: "If it's true, it isn't libel.

She was halfway through the revolving door when the thought hit her; she was the one who had seen Junior and Luther fighting before the banquet. She was the one had told Detective Sullivan. Overcome with guilt, she grabbed Ted's arm and faced him. "It's because of me," she said. "Junior was arrested because of me!

Some truths were too difficult to accept, so the mind manufactured excuses as a way of denying what it already knew.

Even when ignored or denied, truth is the ultimate reference point.

If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility.

There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?

No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See me! Look at me! Look at who I am! Look at who I want you to think I am!

That's the problem with revealing true truths. They make people uncomfortable. The truth should be grand and exotic, but mostly it isn't. Mostly it's uncomfortable.

Experience itself is convention and we are outside of experience.

No good story is quite true.

Lying may be necessary, but should always be painful.

He needs a wife who will love him enough to tell him the truth and to respectfully challenge his selfishness, his self-absorption, and his self-deception.

When you put your foot down and say, "I will not allow myself or the kids to be treated this way anymore. It's destructive to me, to them, and to our marriage," you are not going against God by speaking the truth in love. You are standing for goodness, for truth, and for the healing and restoration of your marriage.

Your core value does not rest on the words of your husband or your mother or your father or your children or even your best friend. It rests on God's words because he's the only one who will always tell you the truth all the time. People change. They fail. They lie. Their knowledge is limited, their thinking distorted, and their hearts are not always pure or good. Therefore it's dangerous to allow them to determine your worth.

Even the best truth tellers (like Jesus) are hated and abused by those who prefer darkness to light.

Maybe you think that God is more interested in preserving your marriage than the well-being of you and your children, but that is not true.

It is not your husband's lies that will do the most damage to you. It's the lies you tell yourself.

God calls us to be biblical peacemakers, not peacekeepers or peace fakers.

True humility requires inner strength to face the truth about ourselves and to receive undeserved favor from a loving God who longs to reconcile people to himself and help them grow.

Contrary to what destructive people will say, the most loving thing we can do for them is hold them accountable for their actions. This indeed may cost us sacrifice and suffering. We do this not only for our benefit but with the hope that as we draw a line in the sand and say "no more" they will wake up to their own sinfulness and repent.

Satan's goal is to tweak a lie so cleverly that it sounds reasonable, truthful, even right. Eve

You can sweep broken glass under the carpet, but eventually it will work its way through the rug and cut your foot.

you cannot change something you will not face.

Every truth bends and reshapes itself or is reshaped by other forces.