Quotes about Truth

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence that Jesus taught almost entirely by telling stories, simple stories dealing with the stuff of life familiar to the Jews of his day. Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos we see despite all the chaos.

It is not the vaccinationists but the antivaccinationists who generate zeal. People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.

The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I

We are all broken, we human creatures, and to pretend we're not is to inhibit healing.

The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that.

If my religion is true, it will stand up to all my questioning; there is no need to fear. But if it is not true, if it is man imposing strictures on God (as did the men of the Christian establishment of Galileo's day), then I want to be open to God, not to what man says about God.

Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories.

But our fear and our rejection does not take away from truth, and truth is what the Bible instructs us to know in order that we may be free.