Quotes about Truth

when the church responds to the word of God as it ought, the church demonstrates the love of God and the mind of Christ, in word and in deed. Just as the church comes to understand the love of God by attending to the story of Jesus and getting caught up in the gospel story, so the church in turn renders that story intelligible when it lives out the truth of the gospel.

To act out truth—to correspond to what is—is ultimately to participate in the way and life of Jesus Christ, the one who is truth incarnate: the embodied word, wisdom, and love of God.

Here is the central paradox: the pastor is a public figure who must make himself nothing, who must speak not to attract attention to himself but rather to point away from himself—unlike most contemporary celebrities. The pastor must make truth claims to win people not to his own way of thinking but to God's way. The pastor must succeed, not by increasing his own social status but, if need be, by decreasing it.

does belief that fails to issue in behavior count as genuine witness (and understanding) or not?

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

It takes the Word of God plus the Spirit of God to equal the Truth of God.

How can we have revival when we value a book the early Church didn't have over the Holy Spirit they did have?

Many people's circumstances dictate their stances. They become powerless victims of other people's actions and attitudes. They wrongly believe that their physical situation is their condition. The truth is, you do not always have power over what happens to you, but you do have complete control over what happens in you.

False prophets are not motivated by love, but are motivated by a need to be noticed.

Any thought that does not inspire hope is rooted in a lie.