Quotes about Truth
Let them be fierce with you who have no experience of the difficulty with which error is discriminated from truth, and the way of life is found amid the illusions of the world.
— John Henry Newman
The whole course of Christianity from the first ... is but one series of troubles and disorders. Every century is like every other, and to those who live in it seems worse than all times before it. The Church is ever ailing ... Religion seems ever expiring, schisms dominant, the light of truth dim, its adherents scattered. The cause of Christ is ever in its last agony.
— John Henry Newman
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced — even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
— John Keats
It seems to me that the only true Christians were the Gnostics, who believe in self-knowledge, i.e. becoming Christ themselves, reaching the Christ within, the light is the truth. Turn on the light. All the better to see you with, my dear.
— John Lennon
The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.
— Martin Luther
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
— Arthur Ashe
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
— John Calvin
Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
— Vince Lombardi
May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
— Pope John Paul II
The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.
— David Bentley Hart
You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
— Seth Godin
Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.
— Mark Batterson