Quotes About Truth

some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.

I'm not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren't real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit.

only a fool blames the messenger.

As the sign of a deeper truth, metaphor was close to sacrament. Because the vastness and richness of reality cannot be expressed by the overt sense of a statement alone.

Where there is no gospel, there is no church!

En otras palabras, donde la Palabra está ausente allí no está la iglesia verdadera ni tampoco la verdadera adoración.

Moreover, as we have already seen, the truth claims of the Bible are not rejected because the gospel is rationally incoherent or unsupported by historical evidence. Rather, the truth is rejected because the unchanged heart remains in love with the false notion of its own moral self-righteousness and/or intellectual autonomy.

God manifested Himself in His humanity. He came near by becoming one of us. "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth" (John 1:14).

El hecho de que Cristo murió por la iglesia debe elevarse a algo más que una actividad de entrada y salida los domingos en la mañana. Ha de seguir siendo un cuerpo de creyentes quienes están unidos a Cristo y se dedican a la adoración de Dios y la propagación de Su verdad. La iglesia está llamada a amarnos unos a otros, a cuidar los unos de los otros, y dedicarnos los unos a los otros con el propósito final de ayudarnos los unos a los otros en el crecimiento espiritual.

Sin embargo, el problema es cuando las iglesias se preocupan más por el mercadeo y por posicionar su imagen (creando una impresión estética que apele a los cinco sentidos), que de su búsqueda de ser conocidos como columna y baluarte de la verdad.

Faith is the only reasonable response to the truth.

Only God's Word does not contradict itself.

Foolishness is living in opposition to what we know to be true. I am afraid this irrational condition and manner of thinking is universally prevalent in all of us. We are not merely irrational every now and then. Without God, we live in a state of irrationality.

Only irrational fools would consistently and practically deny that 2 + 2 = 4. Not only is the answer to this equation a part of common sense, it is easily demonstrable and highly useful.

If the Bible provides us with the only cohesive system of thought that allows us to properly interpret all of reality, why is it so hated and rejected by so many? If the truth claims of the Bible are logically demonstrable, why is it so despised and ridiculed by some of the brightest and smartest minds?

La comisión de la iglesia no está completa hasta que enseñe todo lo que Cristo le instruyó que enseñara. En pocas palabras, la comisión de la iglesia consiste en defender y proclamar la verdad bíblica a los santos y predicar el evangelio al mundo.

Since it's common for me to have errors in judgment, why then would I trust my own judgment over and above the judgment of God? If God has proven Himself to be God, it is absurd for me not to trust Him.

El amilenarismo no es complejo. Es simplemente el evangelio aplicado a la historia del mundo.

Yes, the knowledge of God is an inherent belief.[5.9] Inwardly, we all know this to be true.