Quotes About Truth

Lady," The Misfit said, looking beyond her far into the woods, "there never was a body that give the undertaker a tip.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.

You found out more when you left where you lived. He had found out already this morning that he had been made by a carpenter named Jesus Christ.

We're all damned, she said, "but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there's nothing to see. It's a kind of salvation.

Two things I can't stand, Haze said, ---a man that ain't true and one that mocks what is.

Only art could make fiction beautiful; only reality could sustain such intense art

Librarians are the last people you can trust about the inside of books.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. . . . [Thus] there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

You found out more when you left where you lived. He had found out already this morning that he had been made by a carpenter named Jesus Christ. Before he had thought it had been a doctor named Sladewall ....

his mind had frozen around his grandfather's treachery as if he were trying to preserve it intact to present at the final judgment.

FLANNERY O'CONNOR Wise Blood

No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist.

The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.

The drift away from the Bible has weakened the church.

The case being tried involves a question of ultimate truth — the question of who God is and where he stands; and for just that reason, it is God who will inevitably do the judging.

one foundational truth that I have learned from apocalyptic theology, it is this: God is the subject of the verb. God doesn't need us to help him make his "dream" come true; God is on the march far ahead of us, bringing his purposes to pass

Thus, in Colossians 1:5-6, the Word is described not as the content of the apostles' preaching and mission, but as the active agent, the subject of the verbs: "the word of the truth, the gospel which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing.

What we do know is that followers of Jesus Christ will always want to remember that the true and righteous judgments of the Lord are applicable to every side of every conflict.

But at the same time, even as the season outside gets more exuberantly festive, those who observe Advent within the Christian community are convicted more and more each year by the truth of what is going on inside—inside the church as she refuses cheap comfort and sentimental good cheer. Advent begins in the dark.

Jesus' public ministry . . . was not a drama played out on an empty stage. . . . Especially in a creation infested with sin, the proclamation and enactment of the kingdom of truth and justice is never an act of pure positing, but always already a transgression into spaces occupied by others.

I've learned to really listen to your family and friends. Because they want the best for you. Even if it's not what you want to hear, they're gonna tell you the truth.

If people are honest, they'll admit that I do have a fan base.

When I really started just giving them the truth of who I was, that's when my fan base really started to grow.

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.