Quotes About Truth

George Orwell has written that "political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."1

The arguments of Dell and Webster always come back to a fundamental Antinomianism, to the idea that grace gives not only the ability to act but all requisite knowledge, that the child of God knows the principles of eternal truth merely out of his subjective assurances.

It is time that you stand on the only thing that can never be shaken or changed. Stand upon my Word!

the loin girdle of truth the breastplate of righteousness shoes of the gospel of peace the shield-of faith the helmet of salvation the sword of the Spirit

In Ephesians 1:18, Paul prayed that the eyes of your understanding would be opened. Light expels the darkness, and truth from the Word creates light in the human mind. This light is called understanding. True understanding comes only in the presence of God as the Bread of the Word is continually received.

Get in the Word until the Word gets in you. Cast down evil imaginations.

But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the Day of Judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." – MATTHEW 12:36-37

The enemy. As long as we never expose what he is doing, he will work in the darkness.

We must cut through the veils and enter worship in spirit and truth.

The Word of God works when you take the instructions, follow them, speak them, and act upon them.

Isn't everything a little weird? We all know the answer. Man, machine, reality. What holds it together is that we're all nuts! And that is the ultimate truth, and maybe that's all we need. That and ferret-pee-proof upholstery.

You want to know what OASIS is? You want to know the TRUTH? It's just on the other side of this door. That I am really hoping is unlocked.

To see certain things, you have to be lying on your back with tears in your eyes and a scalding potato in your mouth. It's possible, I think, that you have to be hurt to see anything at all.

fill the holes with facts, not flowers.

Not for the first time Spooner was reminded that marriage was not the straighforward assembly the instruction book led you to believe.

he told a story about the days when he was a reporter himself and how he had gotten so close to story that he finally couldn't write it...When I stared at something long enough, the lines blurred and I could no longer see it for what it was. One thing became another.

As the Trappist monk Thomas Merton says: 'God is far too real to be met anywhere other than in reality.

God is far too real to be met anywhere other than in reality.'9

important to do both. If I understand what the Bible means but never hear what it says to me personally, I have information without revelation. But conversely, if I disregard its original context and ignore the bits I don't like or don't understand, I will be in grave danger of abusing God's Word by confusing it with my own feelings, preferences, and prejudices.

Emily Dickinson, he "tells it slant." Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind—

Notions of absolute truth and ultimate authority are fiercely attacked, and the Bible itself is no longer accorded unconditional respect in Western societies.

I never investigate; sometimes the most terrible thing of all is to confirm what you have only imagined.

Normalcy was the byword, even when it was a lie.

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.