Quotes About Truth

In the Bible there is that which meets every need of man, which answers every mood, which speaks to every heart.

It is a pitiable cowardice to try to overcome fear by ignoring the facts. We do not become masters of our fate by saying that we are. And such blatancy of pride, futile as it is, is not even noble in its futility. It would be noble to rebel against a capricious tyrant, but it is not noble to rebel against the moral law of God.

It never occurred to Paul that a gospel might be true for one man and not for another; the blight of pragmatism had never fallen upon his soul. Paul was convinced of the objective truth of the gospel message, and devotion to that truth was the great passion of his life. Christianity for Paul was not only a life, but also a doctrine, and logically the doctrine came first.[6]

We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved; it is a reality to be experienced.

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

I am not sure importance is important: truth is.

Near as I can figure, living has always been the primary cause of dying, and the sooner we all accept that simple truth, the better off we'll be." Well,

If you do not know how to teach the gospel, you may not truly understand it. And if you do not understand it, you may not be a true Christian.

the gospel is not only a message of salvation but a way of life.

In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

To grow in Christ was to grow in wisdom. To be nourished in the way of Jesus was to be nourished in an ancient way of seeing that is deep in the human soul, an inner truth that is not the preserve of one tradition over against another but a wisdom that precedes and is deeper than our divisions.