Quotes About Truth

Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding. PROVERBS 23:23

Father in heaven, thank You for giving me the power to delete negative, discouraging thoughts that come to contaminate my thinking. Equip me with the truth and help me to become an expert at hitting the delete button. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done. PSALM 78:4

Long and personal familiarity with the application of Scripture was a key element in the Puritan ministerial makeup," Sinclair Ferguson writes. "They pondered the riches of revealed truth the way a gemologist patiently examines the many faces of a diamond."[11] They used Scripture wisely, bringing cited texts to bear on the doctrine or case of conscience[12] at hand, all based on sound hermeneutical principles.

A pregação experimental enfatiza a necessidade de conhecermos as grandes verdades da Palavra de Deus por experiência pessoal. Também testa a nossa experiência pessoal pelas doutrinas da Bíblia. Leva a verdade ao coração para mostrar o que nós somos, onde estamos em nosso relacionamento com Deus, como precisamos ser curados e onde precisamos

Jesus calls all sinners to repent. True repentance is not a nebulous response of sorrow; it requires definite actions. Repentance so transforms the mind that it results in a changed life. Repentance does not merely say "I'm sorry" (similar to what we say when we accidentally step on someone's foot). Rather, true repentance says from the heart, "I've been wrong and grieve over my sin, but now I see the truth, and I will change my ways accordingly.

The Dajjal is sometimes said

and false prophets and persecutions, and so on.

realize there are some teachings that claim we are completely perfect and spiritual now, and therefore all of this would be unnecessary. In our spiritual identity that's true; but it certainly isn't true of our humanhood. And it is our humanhood, or to our humanhood, that we are trying to bring light so that we may outgrow this humanhood

But denying that you are a human being, and stating that you are already perfect and already spiritual and already have the mind of God, is merely a form of affirmation.

You must remember what I have said to many students who told me or wrote to me that they're discouraged because they don't feel spiritual. My answer has always been: "And you never will." If you meet people who say they feel spiritual, don't believe them; they're lying to you. There is no such thing as feeling spiritual, any more than there is such a thing as feeling moral.

Be willing to be used by God; be willing to be used by Truth. Be willing to be an instrument through which Truth reveals Itself, but do not attempt to use God. Never try to use God, Truth. If you understood the nature of God, never would you pray to God for any thing.

This listening is the art of meditation, in the learning of which we come to a place of transition where truth leaves the mind and enters the heart. In other words, there is no longer merely an intellectual knowledge about truth; but truth becomes a living thing within our being.

your words are pure poison, Master Reynold,' said Lesthen. 'You and your kind suffer from the worst disease of humanity, the willingness to subordinate truth, to lock reason in chains and to rape the objective thought, in order to achieve your objective.

And there's nothing in all human space that scares me like human leadership scared of facts.

You stop asking questions, and you just... accept some smaller version of things. Of the truth.

Very few things are wise, Lisbeth Debogande. Least frequently those things that are loudly pronounced to be so. The true question is whether they are necessary

I'm sick of happy bullshit that means nothing. Vacuous words for vacuous minds.

A people well informed cannot be enslaved.

Truth and Beauty are wonderful words but shrapnel is shrapnel and at the end of the day I am alone with the things I have done.

The moon landing is not bullshit," Jane said quietly. "The moon landing was faked," Caitlin said. "Everybody knows that." "Fuck you! You were faked!" Jane said. She shoved Caitlin hard against the lockers.

Ik vind het vervelend dat ik het je moet vertellen, maar je zult nooit gelukkig worden. Ik wil je geen pijn doen door dit te zeggen. Ik zeg het omdat ik het wel zo eerlijk vind om open kaart te spelen voor we beginnen. Ik hoop dat je dat waardeert, want vanaf nu zal niemand meer open of eerlijk tegen je zijn. Dus nogmaals, ik zeg het je vooraf maar: je zult nooit gelukkig worden. Ik heb het voor je opgeschreven. Heel graag gedaan.

The reality, as I now see it, is that death happens, and that death often happens in ways that seem horrific. Refusing to eat meat does not stop that.

Belief cannot give you what already is. Belief can merely obscure that clarity of ever-present reality, which is non-conceptual.