Quotes About Truth

The Bible's answers are never to be separated from the God of the Bible.

The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and beyond our time and taste. It draws toward the center of all things, that still place of which T.S. Eliot wrote : Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the silent Word.

A Bíblia não explica tudo o que é necessário para nossa satisfação intelectual, mas explica tudo o que é necessário para nossa obediência e, portanto, para a satisfação de Deus.

The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to the most ernest disciple but Christ says to us then what He said to His disciples long ago, when many of them had given u pin disgust, Do you also want to leave me? If we answer as PEter did, Lord to whom else shall we go? Your words are words of eternal life, our rebel thoughts are captured once more. The way of holiness is again visible.

God will see to it that we understand as much truth as we are willing to obey.

the truth is that life is risky and dangerous

Debemos aceptar con humildad que haya millones de cosas que no entendemos todavía, pero esto no quiere decir que sólo por el hecho de no comprenderlas no existan o no sean realidades.

Pasados unos meses observé que muchos médicos evitaban rutinariamente referirse a cualquier cosa que tuviera que ver con la muerte. A los enfermos moribundos se los trataba tan mal como a mis pacientes psiquiátricos del hospital estatal. Se los rechazaba y maltrataba. Nadie era sincero con ellos. Si un enfermo de cáncer preguntaba ¿Me voy a morir?, el médico le contestaba ¡Oh, no! no diga tonterías.

In simplicity is such guiding truth. I turn again to the spirituals. "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine" could also be an epigraph to this book, if it were not understood as being simply a merry exhortation. It was, after all, best known as an anthem during the mighty struggles of the civil rights movement. That beautifully repeated let it shine, let it shine, let it shine performs the will to live in the context of mighty, life-and-death struggle.

Half of the things are as they seem. The other half, who knows. This has always been true.

Now there's some honest writing!

Nobody knows what goes on in other families, because families lie about themselves to other people. Not only to other people but to one another. And to themselves.

Some things come true. They might come true in ways different than we might have predicted, but some things do come true

I think love is all about risk. And reinvention. And honesty and revelation. And if you don't have that in a relationship, you don't grow, and you don't stay true to what you started together.

Those who say life is a glorious blessing are right. Those who say it is endlessly cruel are also right.

and there is such honesty and innocence to her voice I want to hold her. The bedside lamplight is a rich golden color, and it is falling on her face in a way that makes it seem gilded. For a moment, L.D. looks to me like an angel. Another case of illusion only being the larger truth.

If one is going to praise children's honesty when their words please, one must tolerate it when the words do not.

false vision, an unconscious surrender to seeing things another way.

It was simply the unalterable truth: unfortunate but upon us; and so it had to be borne.

That's the Jesus truth. It's a wide, wide world. Sooner you lift up your gaze from your own self, sooner you know that.

Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone

This isn't a game for me. I love you, Ivy, and one day you're going to believe me.

The problem with the dead is that they don't keep secrets. Eventually they tell on themselves.

Jesus never pussyfooted