Quotes about Truth

we are to establish our beliefs by the Bible, not by our experiences.

The Bible speaks not of God's laws, as if many of them, but of God's Law as a single whole.

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

The converse truth is that love gives validity to my actions and makes them acceptable to God.

So the Scriptures are infallible and inerrant, but our understanding of them is not. Rather, it is often conditioned by our previous understanding or biases.

The Bible is not merely a book about God; it is a book from God.

Our trust in God must be based, not on someone else's experience, but upon what God has told us about Himself in His Word.

Because His people were in union with Him, to persecute them was to persecute Him. This truth is no different today. You are in union with Christ, just as surely as the disciples were in the time of the book of Acts.

God's unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God's love, nor does our faith create it.

I realized anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don't feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.

But the politically-incorrect truth is that racism today is a state of mind, more than a social reality.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.