Quotes about Truth

We don't need to be taught to lie, or to be selfish or cruel or vindictive—we need to be taught how not to.

Propaganda is when a viewpoint is promoted regardless of truth. Art is when truth is rendered regardless of agenda.

one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.

True love brings up everything you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist nor can it be hidden where it truly does.

...but the truth is that it is only in knowing who you are at your core and staying true to yourself that you can possibly see the difference between passion and real love.

There are two kinds of love: the love that is and the love that isn't.

Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.

We also give up on the quest for truth when we marshal all forces—in exegesis and history as well as in philosophical, moral, and practical theology—to "discover" and corroborate predetermined dogmatic stances.

Our theology is insufficiently Christian—and less revealing of the truth than it should be, if Christian claims are indeed true (as we believe them to be)—when we repeat in religious idiom normative stances that nontheologians advocate, often with better arguments and greater rhetorical power.

The possession of the truth is the highest goal of the human mind.

If communications were not complex, structural outlining would be unnecessary. If language were a perfect medium instead of a relatively opaque one, there would be no need for interpretation. If error and ignorance did not circumscribe truth and knowledge, we should not have to be critical.