Quotes about Truth

The great poets are to be known by the absence in them of tricks, and by the justification of perfect personal candor. All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.

Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is not from Him in this way is an experience that is going to evaporate very soon.

The language that reveals also obscures.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

It is plain that complete havoc must be made of the whole system of revealed truth, unless we consent to derive our philosophy from the Bible, instead of explaining the Bible by our philosophy.

It is intuitively true, to all who have eyes to see, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that his gospel is the wisdom of God and the power of God unto salvation, and that it is absolutely impossible that any theory which is opposed to these divine intuitions can be true.

It would be well if all who call themselves Christians, should learn that it is not their business to believe and teach what they may think true or right, but what God in his Holy Word has seen fit to reveal.