Quotes about Truth

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.

If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. And to be steady on all the battle fields besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

He who believes God, recognizes Him as true and faithful, and himself as a liar; for he mistrusts his own thinking as false, and trusts the Word of God as being true, though it absolutely contradicts his own reasoning.

to call a man without the Holy Spirit "upright and God-fearing" is the same as calling Belial "Christ".

the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous

If you consider this subject unnecessary for Christians, then please quit the field; you and I have nothing in common, for I consider it vital.

The Gospel is true because it deprives men of all glory, wisdom, and righteousness and turns over all honor to the Creator alone. It is safer to attribute too much glory unto God than unto man.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.

no one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.