Quotes about Truth
Some might call the overthrowing of an illegitimate government an act of treason; without a doubt, many have had this thought about me. Now that you have joined us, it is the same thought that others will have about you. But loyalty to a higher truth is not treason, for the ways of God are not the ways of man, and they are most emphatically not the ways of woman.
— Margaret Atwood
But what if she discovers the truth? What he suspects is the truth. That he's patchwork, a tin man, his heart stuffed with sawdust. He thinks of her waiting for him, somewhere else, an island, subtropical, not muggy, her long hair waving in the sea breeze, a red hibiscus tucked behind one ear. If he's lucky she'll wait till that happens, till he can get there to be with her.
— Margaret Atwood
I have to be more careful about my memories, I have to be sure they're my own and not the memories of other people telling me what I felt, how I acted, what I said: if the events are wrong the feelings I remember about them will be wrong too, I'll start inventing them and there will be no way of correcting it, the ones who could help are gone.
— Margaret Atwood
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
— Margaret Mead
Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.
— Thomas Merton
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
— Karl Barth
History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.
— John of the Cross
My fellow believers, it is time to return to the Book. It is time to look to the one source that holds the answers for how our country should operate, the Bible.
— Tony Evans
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
— Thomas Merton
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
— AB Simpson
Truthless times need timeless truths.
— Mark Driscoll