Quotes About Truth

God despises all non-Christian religions. The Bible condemns all of them as false, having been inspired by demons and invented by men. This is evident in various passages, such as the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:3), the confrontation between Elijah and the prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:20-46), and the writings of Paul

Something that is evil can never be called good, and something that is good can never be called evil.

no Christian should be open-minded about whether Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation – we already know that Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation. Open-mindedness is often just a mask for ignorance and cowardice.

If there is an objective standard that determines the meaning of goodness, then we should discover what it is, and set forth the method of knowing such a standard of goodness.

All non-Christian systems of thought begin, proceed, and end in intellectual and practical failure. Thus God has made all non-Christian religions and philosophies foolish and futile.

Open-mindedness is often just a mask for ignorance and cowardice.

Salvation is exclusive – there is only one way to be saved. But the way to destruction is wide open. When it comes to salvation, being open-minded to anything other than the Christian faith is stupid.

A rational way of thinking and knowing arrives at conclusions validly and necessarily deduced from true premises.

John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

God is the only source and cause of knowledge.

If anyone were to discover truth and attain salvation, it must be by God's sovereign grace and effectual calling.

As long as a person denies that the Bible is itself divine revelation, it remains nothing more than an ordinary book, so that he would hesitate to offer it complete reverence, as if it is possible to excessively adore it.

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

What do you do when you find yourself out in a lie—even a white one? Well, one thing for sure, you don't put on black, you don't mourn and beat out a staccato mea culpa on your breast. You go! Get the hell out! Take a chance! Forget you're an American, living in the suburbs of success, hoping to move into the big city...You go!

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work...and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.

Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.

One must seize the reality of one's fate and that's that.

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work and to know that, as a result, one will live in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after. A work that is good may not last forever, but the thought expressed by it will, and the work itself will surely survive for a very long time, and those who come later can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and copy their example.

To me, that book has been both a revelation and a gospel.

For look: people used to think that the earth was flat. That was true, and still is today, of, say, Paris to Asniéres. But that does not alter the fact that science demonstrates that the earth as a whole is round, something nobody nowadays disputes. For all that, people still persist in thinking that life is flat and runs from birth to death. But life, too, is probably round, and much greater in scope and possibilities than the hemisphere we now know.

Biri Rembrandt'? seviyor diyelim, ama ciddi seviyor, o kiÅŸi Tanr?'n?n var olduÄŸunu bilir ve derinden inan?r. Biri Frans?z Devrimi'nin tarihini inceliyor diyelim, o kiÅŸi imans?z olamaz, en büyük ÅŸeylerin gerisinde de tanr?sal bir erkin kendini gösterdiÄŸini anlar.