Quotes About Truth

if you eat less than you burn, you will lose weight. This seems perfectly logical. The problem? It's not true.

If Congress asked a question, Henry was prepared to give an honest answer. That's probably why legislators never asked.

The most intense skeptics and the most intense believers of our age share a common conviction: that beneath all superficial appearances lies a deeper truth.

To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics requires a kind of vitality that cannot be described in purely logical terms.

Much of the theology of the Bible is what we could call "task theology." It is theological truth brought to bear on specific life situations. Since biblical authors seldom deal comprehensively with a particular topic, we must be cautious before assuming that we have the whole truth or the last word in any particular passage.

The vocation of every Christian is to live as a follower of Jesus today. In every aspect of life, in small and large acts, with family, neighbors and enemies, we are to seek to live out the grace and truth of Jesus. This is our vocation, our calling. Today.

The Word made flesh in Jesus Christ should show through us. We are meant to be primary evidence of the flourishing love, grace and truth in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit.

a sinner is pleading to Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates: "Wait, those weren't lies," the sinner says. "That was spin!

It's one small lie, followed by a demand for a bigger lie and a bigger concession, a bigger moral lapse,

We cannot serve the executed God and the god of religious respectability.

George Harrison's cautionary words are a constant companion—"In their bid to tell what they know, sometimes people tell more than what they know

But that's what nonfiction is, people. Shitty feelings and encounters with death.

Are the Gods real or is Ike Karton just crazy? And the answer is: Yes.

Identity liberalism has ceased being a political project and has morphed into an evangelical one. The difference is this: evangelism is about speaking truth to power. Politics is about seizing power to defend the truth.

Plato called this anamnesis, remembering what and who we are, beneath our lives' shifting camouflage, beyond what can be taken away.

Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something WRONG is something RIGHT. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole WORLD tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world-- --"No, YOU move.

I tried my best to fight oppression, but America's at her happiest ruled by liars.

To find meaning and truth in life place a blindfold on and observe your surroundings, you may find it right in front of you."-Mark Miller

When you expect the best, one of the risks is that you will not be grounded in reality. However, optimism is not about ignoring the facts. You still need the facts. You also need people around you to tell you the truth. However, there is greater risk in expecting the worst. Pessimists will have trouble attracting followers. They will be timid and avoid risks. And the opportunity and rewards that go with that risks will forever illude the leader.

When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.

I'm not looking for perfect, but I am looking for real.

Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.

Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.