Quotes about Truth

You can't have the true peace of Christ's kingdom with lies and pretense.

When, out of fear, we avoid conflict and appease people, we are false peacemakers. For

We can't change—or better said, invite God to change us—when we are unaware and do not see the truth.

God is just, merciful, good, wise, loving.

Pain has an amazing ability to open us to new truth and to get us moving.

Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality.

Jesus shows us that healthy Christians do not avoid conflict. His life was filled with it! He was in regular conflict with the religious leaders, the crowds, the disciples—even his own family. Out of a desire to bring true peace, Jesus disrupted the false peace all around him. He refused to "spiritualize away" conflict. 8.

At its best, art is able to do what Fujimura's paintings do: satisfy our deep longing for beauty and communicate profound spiritual, intellectual, and emotional truth about the world that God has made for his glory. Is it any wonder that the best artists are celebrated?

God is not intimidated by such hard and testing questions, nor is he unable to answer them. But we must come with the right kind of skepticism—not the kind that refuses to believe anything at all, but the kind that is committed to believe only what is really true.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

All ways are byeways but the way of God, So broad, not thought a road.

Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect: the other extends it to all men on the condition of faith. Both are right in what they assert; both are wrong in what they deny. If one important truth is pressed to the exclusion of another truth of equal importance, it becomes an error, and loses its hold upon the conscience.