Quotes About Truth

The challenge is that many believe heaven is the default destination when, in fact, the opposite is true.

One more time, because this point is crucial: a lie believed as truth will affect your life as if it were true.

When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.

He taught me that I could be a thinking person and still believe that God's word can stand the test of time and criticism of man, that science confirms Scripture, and that you don't have to duck hard questions. I learned that I didn't have to defensively protect God or His Word, but that I could truth both.

You are who God says you are, not who people say you are. Don't try to base your life on the unstable foundation of human opinions, but instead, build on the unshakable truth of God.

The second admission my young adult friends made is that they know their obsession is distracting them from God. Again, let me ask you to be honest. Do you think more about what God says in his Word or what people say on your feed? How much time do you think about God versus what to say online? Work hard to tell the truth. No matter how tempting it is to ignore him, if God is trying to get your attention, don't shake him off.

More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.

If you think you're trapped, if you believe there's a lock on the door, you've bought into a lie. And it is the lie, nothing else, that is holding you back. Yet if you identify that lie, then you can remove it. You can replace it with the truth and be free. Your liberation is a simple two-step process: Remove the lie. Replace it with truth.

The lie will keep you living in shame from the past, when God wants to set you free for a better future. The lie will keep you from living with joy and freedom and confine you to a less-than existence.

Thinking you're not in trouble and not being in trouble are two different things.

Kind of like the tree that falls in the forest when nobody's around? I mean, if nobody remembers the history, did it still happen?

They say statistics by their nature don't lie, but in my opinion they sometimes do and damnably at that.

There is no shame in it, becoming what your nature says you must be.

There are a lot of theories about how you can tell if somebody is lying to you, did you know that?" He didn't answer but slid the cup the rest of the way toward him and stuck the straw in his mouth. "All kinds of indicators. The only ones that are really hard to catch are pathological liars because they have trouble themselves discerning between a lie and the truth—they blur those lines so much that they can't tell the difference anymore.

You would do well to consider this: all men may be brought to evil by what they hold most important, although few are ever made to realize this. For you, however, this truth will henceforth be inescapable, and will ever be a burden. Yet, as with all knowledge, it may also be a source of strength. Face it, use it, and it will make you far greater than any of those who remain in happy ignorance.

The High Plains settler (myth obscures) a truth that is more complex and less immediately satisfying but embraces, as the stereotype does not, all of what it means to be human.

The truth for a novelist isn;t the same as the facts . . . When a writer is successful in using a story taken from experience, it is not told exactly the way it happened, but in the way that reveals, through all one's beliefs, hopes, and fear, how the event should have happened.

I will return," the voice hissed in Viktor's ear. "I will return and show you the truth and you will be blinded by it. I will show you such horror and fear that you will be burned by its beauty and its clarity.

Revelation addresses many issues that have not changed because human nature and God's character have remained constant. It

No one who beats his wife or children, spreads slander in a congregation, or harbors perpetual unforgiveness in his or her heart is full of the Spirit, no matter how many supernatural gifts he or she claims to have.

You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.

See, most people you meet, they'll talk to you through fifty layers of gauze and tinting. Sometimes you know they're lying even before they've started speaking. And it seems the older they get, the more brazen and desperate folks become, and they lie about things that don't even matter... I don't know. Maybe they just get so used to it they don't even notice. Maybe it's like a creeping curse and the more you do it, the easier it gets. What's amazing is that they think they're fooling anybody.

See, most people you meet, they'll talk to you through fifty layers of gauze and tinting. Sometimes you know they're lying even before they've started speaking. And it seems the older they get, the more brazen and desperate folks become, and they lie about things that don't even matter.

And it happens like that. Like when you first realise that there is no such thing as magic.