Quotes About Truth

But the truth will win out.

I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

If you want to be saved and be a Christian, then stay open to correction. Preachers have to rebuke, or they should leave their position. The Christian who won't accept correction is only pretending to be a Christian.

Examples of this kind teach us that one should not believe any human being, no matter how saintly he may be, but must pay attention to Him who calls and to His Word.

Without Christ there is no access to the Father, but futile rambling; no truth, but hypocrisy; no life, but eternal death.

So also in the gospel (Matt. 16:13, 15) "Who do men say that the Son of Man is? But you (that is, you who are gods), who do you say that I am?

God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feeling, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

In all other things I will yield to any one, but I neither can nor will forsake and deny the word.

Experience, all chronicles, and the Holy Scriptures besides, teach us this truth: the less law, the more justice; the fewer commandments, the more good works. ur traktat om det nya testamentet.

Meanwhile it is to be noted that the whole Scripture of God is divided into two parts: precepts and promises.

In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.

For it is human to avoid or hate because of some error what you do not understand or regard as true; but to persecute manifest and acknowledged truth — this is altogether satanical.

He who does not fear the truth should fear a lie and should worship an image or a phantom as God.

The Holy Spirit is no sceptic, and the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer and more certain than sense and life itself.

For such thoughts are accustomed to occur to men's minds when God wants to punish sins; they regard God's Word and absolute truth as something quite absurd.

To know Christ is to know goodness and discipline.

For this ought, above all things, to be received, and most firmly settled among Christians: - that the Holy Scriptures are a spiritual light by far more clear than the sun itself, especially in those things which pertain unto salvation or necessity.

Thus it has come about that out of the Word they have made Law, out of faith works, out of truth a show; and therefore they have finally been forced to employ the sword.

Scripture alone is the true lord and master of all writings and doctrine on earth.

He does not say: "There dare not be an evil rumor," but rather: "There will be evil rumors. The world will revile him and hold him to be a wicked scoundrel, a heretic, and a deceiver.

Nothing is more familiar or characteristic among Christians than assertion. Take away assertions, and you take away Christianity.

And if what they claim were true, why have Holy Scripture at all? Of what use is Scripture?

When the article of justification is lost, nothing remains except error, hypocrisy, godlessness, and idolatry.

The truth is, I am all sin.