Quotes About Truth

Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing.

I'm beginning to see how the secret ways and deepest mysteries of God and his kingdom are often revealed off the beaten path of organized religion and frequently missed by the too-smart.

The Illusion Model

The web eliminates all hiding places.

Each of us has a particular experience of God and each must find the way to be true to it(

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

The salt of the earth dissolves and the shit remains

Honest men in prison know that there is no such thing as "brainwashing" or "breaking." These expressions of self-delusion never find use behind bars. They are just unfortunate metaphors that allow people outside prison to be less uncomfortable in discussing human limitations.

Let me start with the overobvious, boxed in a cliché, wrapped in some truisms.

I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

There is only one plot—things are not what they seem.

The closest thing we have to a "crap detector" is a qualified librarian.

Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two ways to do this. One is through the read life experiences and the other is through literature. Literature has the power to take us outside ourselves and returns to ourselves a changed self.

For a very long time, white evangelicalism has been simply wrong on the issue of race. Indeed, conservative white Christians have served as a bastion of racial segregation and a bulwark against racial justice efforts for decades, in the South and throughout the country. During the civil rights struggle, the vast majority of white evangelicals and their churches were on the wrong side—the wrong side of the truth, the Bible, and the gospel.

Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk to be true to ourselves.

When you hear people tell you all the truth of the gospel, it does not necessarily mean that is what they are trusting.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for" (CCC 27).

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.

Prophecy gives us the assurance that all the Bible is true.