Truth Quotes
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The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
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I could tell you the truth about me... but to seduce you, I will tell you the truth about you.
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The major strategy of Satan is to distort the character of God and the truth of who we are. He can't change God and he can't do anything to change our identity and position in Christ. If, however, he can get us to believe a lie, we will live as though our identity in Christ isn't true.
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The truth can be devastating. We spend much of our lives protecting ourselves from it and shielding others as well. We use lies to take the edge off life. We dream of a better tomorrow. We hide from our regrets and inadequacies. We try to exaggerate the good and downplay the bad. We even manage to hide from the inescapable reality that sooner or later we and everyone we love is going to die.
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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
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The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.
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The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
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Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift.
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You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.
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Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.
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The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.
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We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.
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There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
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Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God's people. Our virtues are truth-telling, kindness, forgiveness and yes, even anger-as long as it is the anger that is part of true love-through which we move closer to one another and to the God who has shown us how it is done.
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
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If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability!
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This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.
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But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
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There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings - of what? Of the truth, for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes, have seen it in all its glory.
