Quotes about Truth

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Has science proven that a resurrection is impossible and, therefore, not a credible belief?

Embarrassing admissions support historical claims. An indicator that an event or saying is authentic occurs when the source would not be expected to create the story, because it embarrasses his cause and `weakened its position in arguments with opponents.

The external evidence of Jesus' resurrection confirms the truth we have received via God's written revelation.

There is an important difference between the apostle martyrs and those who die for their beliefs today. Modern martyrs act solely out of their trust in beliefs that others have taught them. The apostles died for holding to their own testimony that they had personally seen the risen Jesus. Contemporary martyrs die for what they believe to be true. The disciples of Jesus died for what they knew to be either true or false.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.

Everything comes to light, Nancy, sooner or later. When God Almighty wills it, our secrets are found out.

People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice.