Quotes about Truth

For as nothing can fall to the Earth, but because it has the Nature of the Earth in it; so it is a Truth of the utmost Certainty, that nothing can ascend towards Heaven, or have the least Power to unite with it, but that very Spirit which came down from Heaven, and has the Nature of Heaven in it.

if a man is an honest idiot. i can love him. but i cannot love a dishonest genius

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

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.

I only belive in statistics I doctored myself

God's revelation was not a mystic secret for the initiated, but a light to guide every member of God's community.

I've come to the conclusion that it's more important that I have the right attitude than that I have the right answers. If my answers are wrong, God can change them in a moment by the revelation of His truth. But often times it takes a whole lifetime to change an attitude. Better that we have the right attitude and the wrong answers, than the right answers and the wrong attitude.

The best Bible teaching is not that which dazzles people with the profound intellect of their teacher, but that which puts its truth squarely in their hands.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Choose reality, Sarah. It's the only place where strength and faith can begin to work.

I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert.