Quotes about Truth

When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are.

Love is what we need in friendship when we stumble, and truth is what we need when we stray.

How sad to see a worthless man who claims to know God confirm by running back to the road of self-righteousness that he never met Him.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.

Watch out for the people who say that all is good between them and God but have no interest in being reconciled with the people whom their sin has injured.

God is holy, and to see His holiness means to do it His way.

If we are to use the Bible effectively, then we must use it the way God wrote it — in narrative form. Our team rejects the notion that the Bible is simply an encyclopedia of disconnected Bible verses. God's Word is less like a cookbook and more like a novel.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations.

Few are guided by principle any longer, only by what they prefer. "You have to decide what's right for you," we are told. In such a climate, the only remaining virtue is tolerance, and the only philosophies that are wrong are those that believe in truth.

What is it that leads such a person to reject the truth of God in the first place? According to Paul, it is a determined opposition to the nature of God Himself, which the apostle describes as human "ungodliness and unrighteousness" (Rom. 1:18).

Augustine, the most famous convert of antiquity, was puzzled that he could have held so firmly to so many different falsehoods; he was not astounded that there are so many different truths. His conversion was not from explanation to narrative, but from one explanation to another. When he crossed the line from paganism to Christianity, he arrived in the territory of a truth beyond further challenge.