Quotes About Truth

Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

The old saying is true: If you have only the Word, you dry up. If you have only the Spirit, you blow up. But if you have both, you grow up.

The Scriptures are not so much the goal as they are an arrow that points us to the life-changing Christ

In the church today, we are falling prey to the appeal of "New!" The old truths of the gospel don't seem spectacular enough. We're restless for the latest, greatest, newest teaching or technique. We pastors in particular seem to search for a shortcut or some dynamic new strategy that will fire up our churches.

Isn't it evident we need more God and fewer gimmicks?

The LORD is faithful to all his promises and loving toward all he has made

Reading the Bible on a regular basis involves engaging in spiritual warfare, because Satan doesn't want us to read it.

when people know you love and care about them, you can speak difficult truth and they will receive it.

Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?

The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.

it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

We sort of tell ourselves what we want to hear and the more we do that, the more we begin to agree with ourselves—and maybe get fooled into thinking what is wrong is actually right.

I believe, as I am sure you believe, that eventually everything is known. Eventually it will become to somebody's interest to tell. Secrets are like meat; they can be frozen or eaten but not kept.

Unpleasant facts don't go away simply because we stop paying conscious attention to them.

You are not right because people agree with you; you are right because your facts and reasoning are right.

People may not always live what they profess, but they will always live what they believe.

Nothing is true and all is allowed

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As author Alain de Botton notes, the problem with facts is not that we need more of them, but that we don't know what to do with the ones we have.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.