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Quotes About Truth

I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
~ Walt Whitman
Faith lives in honest doubt.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
~ John Quincy Adams
I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.
~ Sylvia Plath
True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.
~ A.W. Tozer
Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.
~ Unknown
Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?
~ Rob Bell
I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.
~ Joseph Silk
The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
~ Philip Yancey
Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.
~ Gene Wolfe
Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
~ Richard Dawkins
You aren't staying in heaven because you still need to purify the mind. Your faith is powerful, but it is invested in what you believe you are, and most of what you believe about yourself is a lie.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Authentic faith is lived wisdom, exact cognition, direct experience.
~ Samael Aun Weor
One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.
~ Susan Sontag
The poem is a confession of faith.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
~ R. C. Sproul
No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.
~ Thomas Paine
I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.
~ Unknown
If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.
~ Frederick Buechner