Quotes About Truth

This society, promoted by its leaders as an egalitarian utopia, was in truth one of the most unequal societies on earth.

In a Godless universe, what is the difference between doing unto others that we would wish them to do unto us, and merely appearing to do unto others that we would wish them to do unto us? The answer, alas, is that if there is no God who knows the secrets of our hearts, it is all too easy to appear to be good, and even to do formally good deeds, all of which are empty of real goodness.

Never discard the negative roots of any equation; always look at the dark side of any enlightenment.

We trust the text not because it is "true" in the sense of fact, but because in its infinite variety it points to the truth and communicates truth because it comes from the truth which

language of the Bible is meant always to point us to a truth beyond the text, a meaning that transcends the particular and imperfectly understood context of the original writers, and our own prejudices and parochialisms that we bring to the text. Literalism is not part of the solution to this

What was concealed in the Old is revealed in the New." The New Testament itself is

There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is... the viscously long battle between world views. And eventually -Finally- no matter how much it may hurt, Truth wins out. Every. Damn. Time.

All men lie. That's how they operate. if you want a longterm relationship with a man you've got to understand it's going to be with a liar. It's in their nature - it's genetic, it's a bloody Darwinian acquired characteristic for survival, OK? They tell you what they want you to hear.

That's the one good thing about the human brain, it constantly revises the past, cutting bits here, adding bits there, presenting it in an even more palatable way - the way we would have liked things to have been, rather than the way they really are.

Faith hears the truth of the gospel, believes it and then acts upon it.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits

El evangelio, y la experiencia que fluye de él, deben conservar su prioridad, porque si no es así no tendremos nada con lo que evaluar la validez de la experiencia.

No puede existir una versión auténtica del cristianismo sin una entidad lingüística conocida como la palabra de Dios.

El evangelio no solo es un suceso; es una palabra fija, una verdad que permanece, una palabra fundamental para la vida, que contiene la promesa de las cosas venideras.

Reality never changes. It is our attitudes about reality that change.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ëYou must not eat from any tree in the garden?í”

“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.

“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”