Quotes about Truth
I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
— Ronald Reagan
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
— NT Wright
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did.
— Jan Hus
The Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge.
— James Faust
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
— Albert Schweitzer
Americans do not have to agree on everything, but we should be united on what we know is right and against what is wrong. And we all know that the Democrat Party is wrong, as is the liberal media who collude with them - wolves in sheep's clothing.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
— Aldous Huxley
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
— Mark Twain
Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.
— John Polkinghorne
There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator.
— John Ortberg