Quotes about Truth

The declarations of the gospel are unavoidably tied to the obligations of the Gospel.

Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.

If I trust what I see on my phone more than what I see out my window, what does it mean to believe that the real world is not where I live?

Somewhere along the line we bought—or were sold—the idea that God is chiefly interested in religion. We believed that God's home was

This is one of the reasons why I remain a devoted student of the Bible: because what it says is so often not what I have been taught it says, or what I think it says, or what I want it to say.

Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can. If we want to hear and see more, even the parts that expose our scornfulness, we need partners from outside our ingroups to keep telling us how we sound.

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower of Christ, I want to live with reckless abandonment to the truth of the Gospel.