Quotes about Truth
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
— Henry David Thoreau
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
— Henry David Thoreau
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it legalism.
— Leonard Ravenhill
One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.
— Leonard Ravenhill
There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.
— Leonard Ravenhill
To come to the table is to learn to be our real selves—not some construct conceived by someone else, but who God made us to be.
— Leonard Sweet