Quotes about Truth
There is no excuse for anyone in taking the position that there is no more truth to be revealed, and that all our expositions of scripture are without an error. The fact that certain doctrines have been held as truth for many years by our people is not a proof that our ideas are infallible. Age will not make an error into truth, and truth can be fair. No true doctrine will lose anything by close investigation
— Ellen White
I am encouraged and blessed as I realize that the God of Israel is still guiding His people, and that He will continue to be with them, even to the end.46 We cannot now step off the foundation that God has established. We cannot now enter into any new organization; for this would mean apostasy from the truth.47
— Ellen White
One of the most solemn and yet most glorious truths revealed in the Bible is that of Christ's second coming to complete the great work of redemption.
— Ellen White
He wept over Jerusalem, the city He loved, which refused to receive Him, the way, the truth, and the life. They had rejected Him, the Saviour, but He regarded them with pitying tenderness.
— Ellen White
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
— Ellen Glasgow
The great storehouse of truth is the word of God— the written word, the book of nature, and the book of experience in God's dealing with human life. Here are the treasures from which Christ's workers are to draw. In the search after truth they are to depend upon God, not upon human intelligences, the great men whose wisdom is foolishness with God. Through His own appointed channels the Lord will impart a knowledge of Himself to every seeker.
— Ellen White
The declarations of the gospel are unavoidably tied to the obligations of the Gospel.
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
— Emily Bronte
The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
If I trust what I see on my phone more than what I see out my window, what does it mean to believe that the real world is not where I live?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Somewhere along the line we bought—or were sold—the idea that God is chiefly interested in religion. We believed that God's home was
— Barbara Brown Taylor
This is one of the reasons why I remain a devoted student of the Bible: because what it says is so often not what I have been taught it says, or what I think it says, or what I want it to say.
— Barbara Brown Taylor