Quotes about Truth

Many believers use truth as a license to righteously diminish others' reputations.

Jesus is literally the exegesis of God.

If we confuse legalism and discipline, we do so to our soul's peril.

we have the Word without the Spirit, we tend to "dry up"; if we have the Spirit without the Word, we tend to "blow up"; if we have both Spirit and Word, we tend to "grow up" and "fire up." But when each is properly joined in common union, there is explosive power to be had.

Without God, right and wrong are just personal beliefs. Personal opinions. I think shoplifting is okay, you don't.

A society can survive bad donkey drivers. But it cannot survive contempt for truth—whether inside or outside a courtroom.

The world's thinking is morally confused because it is informed by the morally confused.

With all our sophistication, the remarkable fact is that the Ten Commandments are more or less all we need.

Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.

However, one big obstacle to truth-telling is that believers in causes, including good causes, that don't place truth as a central value, will be very tempted to lie on behalf of their cause.

The Ten Commandments are there to warn all of us that, with very few exceptions, such as the immediate saving of innocent life, no cause is more important than truth-telling. The Ten Commandments are the greatest list of instructions ever devised for creating a good society. But such a society cannot be created or maintained if it is not based on truth.

Every word is true. It is filled with God's own power and authority.