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Quotes About Truth

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Bert, whenever you see something bright, shining, perfect-seeming - all gold, with purple spots - look behind the paint! And if it's a lie - show it up for what it really is!
~ Jerome Lawrence
I must say that "Right" has no meaning to me whatsoever! Truth has meaning - as a direction. But one of the peculiar imbecilities of our time is the grid of morality we have placed on human behavior: so that every act of man must be measured against an arbitrary latitude of right and longitude of wrong - in exact minutes, seconds, and degrees!... -Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit The Wind
~ Jerome Lawrence
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~ Jerome Lawrence
My point... is of course not that solipsism is true; it's just that truth, reference, and the rest of the semantic notions aren't psychological categories. What they are is: they're modes of Dasein. I don't know what Dasein is, but I'm sure that there's lots of it around, and I'm sure that you and I and Cincinnati have all got it. What more do you want?
~ Jerry A. Fodor
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
The time is coming when the Antichrist will take full control of the world system. The judgments will get worse. Before us are two people— one who knew God and one who didn't. One who showed the love of God, who gave her life so that we would be saved. May these two lives renew our resolve to live for God. We must let nothing stand in our way in telling others the truth. Even if it costs our lives.
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word.
~ Jerry Bridges
Even Christians taking in the teaching of the Bible can be deceived about our own sins. We somehow feel that consent to the teaching of scripture is equivalent to obedience.
~ Jerry Bridges
How sweetly we relish the opportunity to speak critically of someone else—even when we are unsure of our facts. We forget that "a man who stirs up dissension among brothers" by criticizing one to another is one of the "six things which the Lord hates" (Proverbs 6:16-19).
~ Jerry Bridges
We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.
~ Jerry Bridges
Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word." (The Great Exchange)
~ Jerry Bridges
But, as so often has been observed, we are to establish our beliefs by the Bible, not by our experiences.
~ Jerry Bridges
The second truth we must keep in mind is that God is never the author of sin.
~ Jerry Bridges
God is perfectly holy, then we can be confident that His actions toward us are always perfect and just.
~ Jerry Bridges
Our duty, then, is to obey the "things revealed," that is, the will of God as revealed in Scripture for every area of life. Scripture
~ Jerry Bridges
we are to establish our beliefs by the Bible, not by our experiences.
~ Jerry Bridges
That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.
~ Jerry Bridges
The Bible speaks not of God's laws, as if many of them, but of God's Law as a single whole.
~ Jerry Bridges
We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.
~ Jerry Bridges
The converse truth is that love gives validity to my actions and makes them acceptable to God. I
~ Jerry Bridges
So the Scriptures are infallible and inerrant, but our understanding of them is not. Rather, it is often conditioned by our previous understanding or biases.
~ Jerry Bridges
The Bible is not merely a book about God; it is a book from God.
~ Jerry Bridges
Our trust in God must be based, not on someone else's experience, but upon what God has told us about Himself in His Word.
~ Jerry Bridges