Quotes about Truth
The truth is, as I have often said, and as Scripture informs us, and as the facts themselves sufficiently indicate, the demons are found to look after their own ends only, that they may be regarded and worshipped as gods, and that men may be induced to offer to them a worship which associates them with their crimes, and involves them in one common wickedness and judgment of God.
— St. Augustine
For behold, Thou lovest the truth, and he that doth it, cometh to the light.
— St. Augustine
God forbid that there be any truth in an opinion which threatens us with a real misery that is never to end, but is often and endlessly to be interrupted by intervals of fallacious happiness. For what happiness can be more fallacious and false than that in whose blaze of truth we yet remain ignorant that we shall be miserable, or in whose most secure citadel we yet fear that we shall be so?
— St. Augustine
Entrust Truth, whatsoever thou hast from the Truth, and thou shalt lose nothing; and thy decay shall bloom again, and all thy diseases be healed, and thy mortal parts be reformed and renewed, and bound around thee.
— St. Augustine
For how could I justly be blamed and prohibited from loving false things, if it were false that I loved them?
— St. Augustine
Doth then, O Lord God of truth, whoso knoweth these things, therefore please Thee? Surely unhappy is he who knoweth all these, and knoweth not Thee: but happy whoso knoweth Thee, though he know not these. And whoso knoweth both Thee and them is not the happier for them, but for Thee only, if, knowing Thee, he glorifies Thee as God, and is thankful, and becomes not vain in his imaginations.
— St. Augustine
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
I, for one, shall speak about those obstinate Greeks, who are with us and against us, united in faith and divided in peace, though in truth their faith may stray from the straight path.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
It is commonly said: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
After you die, you wear what you are.
— Teresa of Avila
Truth suffers, but never dies.
— Teresa of Avila
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
— St. Thomas Aquinas