Quotes about Truth
What if those deep desires in our hearts are telling us the truth, revealing to us the life we were meant to live? God gave us eyes so that we might see; he gave us ears that we might hear; he gave us will that we might choose, and he gave us hearts that we might live. The way we handle the heart is everything.
— John Eldredge
The old saints sang "Great Is Thy Faithfulness," both because it's true and also because they needed to declare it to be true.
— John Eldredge
" "It is the glory of God to conceal a matter," says the book.
— John Eldredge
And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
— John F. Kennedy
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
— John F. Kennedy
there are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side.
— John F. Kennedy
And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.
— John Henry Newman
Let them be fierce with you who have no experience of the difficulty with which error is discriminated from truth, and the way of life is found amid the illusions of the world.
— John Henry Newman
The whole course of Christianity from the first ... is but one series of troubles and disorders. Every century is like every other, and to those who live in it seems worse than all times before it. The Church is ever ailing ... Religion seems ever expiring, schisms dominant, the light of truth dim, its adherents scattered. The cause of Christ is ever in its last agony.
— John Henry Newman
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced — even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
— John Keats
It seems to me that the only true Christians were the Gnostics, who believe in self-knowledge, i.e. becoming Christ themselves, reaching the Christ within, the light is the truth. Turn on the light. All the better to see you with, my dear.
— John Lennon
The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.
— Martin Luther