Quotes About Truth

God is The Reasonable One, therefore reason & faith are not antithetical" ~R. Alan Woods [2007]

Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith...it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine.

Maybe you should stop putting so much faith into what you read in books.

I knew without a glimmer of doubt that all things in the universe were connected by a living truth that would not relent its continuing search for wholeness until every form of life was united.

What's up is faith what's down is heresy.

Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief."

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.

I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.