Quotes about Truth

On a huge hill, Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe; And what the hills suddenness resists, winne so; Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night.

Dear love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream; It was a theme For reason, much too strong for fantasy, Therefore thou wak'd'st me wisely; yet My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it. Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice To make dreams truths, and fables histories; Enter these arms, for since thou thought'st it best, Not to dream all my dream, let's act the rest.

To adore, or scorne an image, or protest, May all be bad; doubt wisely, in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleepe, or runne wrong, is: on a huge hill, Cragg'd, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe; And what the hills suddenes resists, winne so; Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night.

Though she were true when you met her. and last till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less.

Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.