Quotes about Truth

We cannot finally judge the correctness of what we do in evangelism by the immediate response that we see. It is important to understand this truth, because a failure to understand it can distract well-meaning churches into pragmatic, results-oriented endeavors and it can transform pastors into neurotic people-manipulators.

Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open.

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.

You can't pray a lie.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.

All generalizations are false, including this one.