Quotes about Truth
They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.
— John Milton
For who knows not that Truth is strong..; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licencings to make her victorious.
— John Milton
Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous wolves, Who all the sacred mysteries of Heaven to their own vile advantages shall turn of lucre and ambition, and the truth with superstitions and traditions taint, left only in those written records pure, though not but by the spirit understood.
— John Milton
Had anyone written and divulged erroneous things and scandalous to honest life, misusing and forfeiting the esteem had of his reason among men, if after conviction this only censure were adjudged him that he should never henceforth write
— John Milton
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
— John Milton
But that we are so totally depraved, is a truth which no one ever truly learned by being only told it.
— John Newton
The appearance of an angel from heaven could add nothing to the certainty of the declarations he has already put into our hands.
— John Newton
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
— John Owen
Interpretis officium est, non quid ipse velit, sed quid sentiat ille quem interpretatur, exponere," Hieron. Apol. adv. Rufin.;—for when the mind is really affected with the discovery of truth itself, it will be guided and directed in the declaration of it unto others.
— John Owen
It is not, we see, of ourselves, that we either know the truth, or love it, or abide in the profession of it. We have nothing of this kind but what we have received. Humility in ourselves, usefulness towards others, and thankfulness unto God, ought to be the effects of this consideration.
— John Owen
What we cannot comprehend in things divine and infinite, as unto their own nature, that we are not to believe in their revelation.
— John Owen
That we affix no sense unto any obscure or difficult passage of Scripture but what is materially true and consonant unto other express and plain testimonies.
— John Owen