Quotes about Truth
The blessed Gospel of Christ is what I hold; that do I believe, that have I taught, and that will I never revoke!
— John Foxe
The archbishop endeavored to prevail on Mr. Wishart to recant; but he was too firmly fixed in his religious principles and too much enlightened with the truth of the Gospel, to be in the least moved.
— John Foxe
His astonishing constancy during these trials, and serenity of countenance while under such excruciating torments, gave the spectators so exalted an idea of the dignity and truth of the christian religion, that many became converts upon the occasion,
— John Foxe
A Christian theist, while conceding that the argument for God's existence is circular, nevertheless will claim that the argument is sound and persuasive. For he devoutly believes that his position is true, and he believes that it can be clearly recognized as such. He believes that God made men to think in terms of this circularity, rather than in terms of some competing circularity.
— John Frame
It is God himself who enables us to accept his Word as our foundation, our presupposition.
— John Frame
They have forgotten these immortal words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor whose passion for truth drove him to confront Adolf Hitler and Germany: Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.1.
— John Hagee
It does not require many words to speak the truth. Words can make a deeper scar than silence can ever heal. Kind words are short to speak, but their echoes are endless.
— John Hagee
Lord Bacon said, "Writing makes an exact man." He spoke the truth. Writing produces exactitude by forcing you to set down ideas in logical relation to one another. Writing crystallizes your thoughts and makes your ideas specific.
— John Haggai
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
— John Henry Newman
Let the mad poets say whate'er they pleaseOf the sweets of Fairies, Peris, Goddesses,Haunters of cavern, lake, and waterfall,As a real woman, lineal indeedFrom Pyrrha's pebbles or old Adam's seed.
— John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
— John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.
— John Keats