Quotes about Truth

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.

You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, ...: in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.

If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free...

I understand that sometimes the truth of God's Word can become a divider, an irritation, a stone of stumbling. But that's only because it remains unchanged, uncompromising, and steadfast. And what better reason could there be to build our lives on such an immovable foundation? To violate the Word of God is only to destroy ourselves, our joy, our peace, our happiness.

Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course.

The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth.

So evil can't exist unless good exists. But good can't exist unless God exists. In other words, there can be no objective evil unless there is objective good, and there can be no objective good unless God exists. If evil is real—and we all know it is—then God exists.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

The God the new atheists reject is not the actual God of the Bible.

No one can increase the volume in the pulpit to such a level as to muffle the echo of lost convictions.