Quotes About Truth

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

The point is there ain't no point.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Love, truth, beauty, wisdom and consolation against death. Who had said that? Someone else who loved books.

Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.

Sticks and stones can break our bones, but lies can break our hearts and our careers.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.

I hold that belief in God is not merely as reasonable as other belief, or even a little or infinitely more probably true than other belief; I hold rather that unless you believe in God you can logically believe in nothing else

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

The Bible is thought of as authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything. We do not mean that it speaks of football games, of atoms, etc., directly, but we do mean that it speaks of everything either directly or by implication.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

I wasn't that good you know. What I was was a guy who could write a little, publishing in magazines surrounded by people who couldn't write at all. So I looked pretty good. But I never thought I was that good at all. All that I thought was that I tried to tell the truth.

The French doctor - the French, they are a very logical race and make good doctors - says: "M'sieu, they have all been on the wrong track - ("Jane Brown's Body")

Fisher just stood there lost in thought, without saying anything. There is always a rational explanation for everything in this world - whether it's the true one or not. Maybe it is better so. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God.

I had believed the Bible always, but reading it now had nothing to do with belief. It was simply a description of the way things were--of hell and heaven, of how men act and how God acts.

Love. How did one show it? How could God Himself show truth and love at the same time in a world like this? By dying. The answer stood out for me sharper and chillier than it ever had before that night: the shape of a Cross etched on the history of the world.

What I have to say is of no importance. Let me tell you what the Son of God had to say.