Quotes about Truth

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

Nothing can compensate for a lack of authenticity.

Grace strips away the tin, rips off the masks, helps us to be ourselves so that when we speak of our faith it rings true.

Second, always speak the truth without fear.

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" (v. 17). This means there is also an absence of expectations.

Yet, those who are truly honest and humble enough to admit the truth come to the end of their earthly lives acknowledging that they have barely scratched the surface.

the verses that follow appear to stress the mental deficiency of the darkness: its unwillingness to believe and therefore its inability to comprehend. Then, as the story of Jesus unfolds, John will show that truth is nonsense to a mind darkened by sin (8:

This points us to an undeniable theological truth we learn from Genesis 4: humans are murderers, not because we commit murder, but because we are murderers at heart.

This should serve as a warning to anyone who thinks that God will accept anything we choose to bring as long as we're sincere.

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

A truth presented by Satan himself is just as true as a truth stated by God.

Our violent, narcissistic, noncommittal, "me first" culture is simply the logical and predictable expression of "truth" as a relative, subjective, unverifiable concept.