Quotes About Truth

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a basket. Instead, he sets it on a stand, so those who enter can see the light.

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body is full of darkness.

Be careful, then, that the light within you is not darkness.

“Now then,” said the Lord, “you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?

Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”

One of the experts in the law told Him, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us as well.”

Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ëI will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.í

As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,

Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”

As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply Him with questions about many things,

waiting to catch Him in something He might say.

In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.

What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.

But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear the One who, after you have been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him!

I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.

But whoever denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.

For at that time the Holy Spirit will teach you what you should say.”

Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.

Then Jesus said to the crowds, “As soon as you see a cloud rising in the west, you say, ëA shower is coming,í and that is what happens.

And when the south wind blows, you say, ëIt will be hot,í and it is.

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and sky. Why donít you know how to interpret the present time?

And why donít you judge for yourselves what is right?