Quotes about Truth

It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

None of us have pure thoughts; we all live in glass houses.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.

Henri de Lubac, one of the most outstanding Roman Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, put it with a clarity and brevity very hard to improve upon: 'It is not sincerity, it is truth which frees us… To seek sincerity above all things is perhaps, at bottom, not to want to be transformed.

Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who is for or against it.

the truth can be quickly received, or received at all, only by the sinner who knows and admits that he is guilty of having sinned much. Stated another way: only guilt admitted accepts truth.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against.