Quotes about Truth

There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious, that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must co-operate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced, have no right to persecute others on whom conviction operates more slowly.

There may be many systems of religion that so far from being morally bad are in many respects morally good: but there can be but ONE that is true; and that one necessarily must, as it ever will, be in all things consistent with the ever existing word of God that we behold in his works. But such is the strange construction of the christian system of faith, that every evidence the heavens affords to man, either directly contradicts it or renders it absurd. It

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It

May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.

Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

The gospel sweetens the law.

No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.

When promises are verified, God's truth is magnified.

When we profess God's name, but do not live answerably to it, we take it in vain.

Christians are condemned who profess to own God for their God and yet do not live as if he were their God.

O let us look to our ends in obedience; it is possible the action may be right, and not the heart.

As no flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.