People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

You can't have the true peace of Christ's kingdom with lies and pretense.

We can't change—or better said, invite God to change us—when we are unaware and do not see the truth.

Sadly, some of our misguided Christian beliefs and expectations have, as Thomas Merton wrote, "merely deadened our humanity, instead of setting it free to develop richly, in all its capacities, under the influence of grace.

God is not intimidated by such hard and testing questions, nor is he unable to answer them. But we must come with the right kind of skepticism—not the kind that refuses to believe anything at all, but the kind that is committed to believe only what is really true.

It is not the business of the historian to construct a history from preconceived notions and to adjust it to his own liking, but to reproduce it from the best evidence and to let it speak for itself.

The duty of the historian is not to make the facts, but to discover them, and then to construct his theory wide enough to give them all comfortable room.

Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.