God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
– Dwight L. Moody
God | Truth
Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers
– Francis Chan
Truth | Obedience
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
– Blaise Pascal
Truth | The Heart
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for – because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
– Peter Marshall
Truth | Vision
Love and truth must be maintained in perfect balance. Truth is never to be abandoned in the name of love. But love is not to be deposed in the name of truth… Truth without love has no decency; it’s just brutality. On the other hand, love without truth has no character; it’s just hypocrisy.
– John MacArthur
Love | Truth
It is wondrous how, the truer we become, the more unerringly we know the ring of truth, can discern whether a man be true or not, and can fasten at once upon the rising lie in word and look and dissembling act – wondrous how the charity of Christ in the heart perceives every aberration from charity in others, in ungentle thought or slanderous tone.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Truth | Discernment
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
– Blaise Pascal
Truth
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him alright.
– Blaise Pascal
Truth | Trust | Providence
The man who thinks he can know the Word of God by mere intellectual study is greatly deceived. Spiritual truth is spiritually discerned.
– Samuel Chadwick
Scripture | Truth | Discernment
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
– Warren Wiersbe
Love | Truth | Hypocrisy
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
– Blaise Pascal
Truth
With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.
– Ravi Zacharias
Truth
Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.
– Thomas Brooks
Truth
Blessed be the God’s voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
– Thomas Carlyle
Truth | Lying
When a truth is unfolded by God it most naturally becomes a power in man, who then finds himself able to believe.
– Watchman Nee
Truth | Faith | Power
When a man argues for victory and not for truth, he is sure of just one ally that is the devil. Not the defeat of the intellect, but the acceptance of the heart is the only true object in fighting with the sword of the spirit.
– George Macdonald
Victory | Truth | The Heart
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
– Blaise Pascal
Truth | Rest
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
– Blaise Pascal
Faith | Truth
Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.
– Augustine
Truth | God
If I speak what is false, I must answer for it; if truth, it will answer for me.
– Thomas Fuller
Lying | Truth
For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
– Frederick W. Faber
Truth
Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.
– Ravi Zacharias
Truth
If you want the truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it.
– Charles Spurgeon
Truth | Lying
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
– Peter Marshall
Truth | Change
To secure one’s freedom the Christian must experience God’s light which is God’s truth.
– Watchman Nee
Truth | Light
If our brain is full of prejudice towards the truth or towards the preacher, truth will not enter it nor will it extend to our life. No wonder some believers derive no help already have they decided what they would like to read or hear.
– Watchman Nee
Reasoning | Truth
Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
– Martin Luther
Peace | Truth
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Truth | Failure
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
– Thomas Aquinas
Truth
If Jesus, the sinless and perfect Son of God, limited Himself to speaking nothing during His incarnation except the truth He received from His Father, how much more should those who have been called into ministry speak only on the authority of divine Scripture.
– John MacArthur
Truth | Scripture
“Let God be true but every man a liar” is the language of true faith.
– A. W. Tozer
Faith | Truth
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
– Blaise Pascal
Truth
Yet, surely, there must be some who will fling aside the (cowardly) love of peace, and speak out for our Lord, and for His truth. A craven spirit is upon man, and their tongues are paralyzed. Oh, for an outburst of true faith and holy zeal.
– Charles Spurgeon
TruthZeal
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
– C.S. Lewis
Truth | Examples
The pro-life agenda has no meaning apart from its being rooted in absolute truth, in self-evident truths – truths that are true because they’re true, not because somebody says they are true.
– Chuck Colson
Abortion | Truth
For not only does sound reason direct us to refuse the guidance of those who do or teach anything wrong, but it is by all means vital for the lover of truth, regardless of the threat of death, to choose to do and say what is right even before saving his own life.
– A. W. Tozer
Truth
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that ‘In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth’.
– C.S. Lewis
Philosophy | Scripture | Truth
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
– Augustine
Truth
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.
– Francis Schaeffer
Truth
A sacred regard to the authority of God ought to lead us to reject an error, however old, sanctioned by whatever authority, or however generally practiced.
– Charles Spurgeon
Truth
Such is the turbulence of human passions in party disputes, when victory more than truth is contended for, that the post of honor is a private station.
– George Washington
Politics | Truth | Victory
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
– Isaac Newton
Truth
Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his learning be great or small, but let the love of pure truth draw you to read. Do not inquire, Who said this? but pay attention to what is said.
– Thomas a Kempis
Books | Truth | Learning
A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.
– Thomas a Kempis
Truth
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
– Isaac Newton
Truth
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
– Blaise Pascal
Truth
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
– Blaise Pascal
Truth
Oath-taking is really a pathetic confession of our own dishonesty. What do we find it necessary to introduce our promises by some tremendous formula? The only reason is that we know our simple word is not likely to be trusted. So we try to induce people to believe us by adding a solemn oath.
– John Stott
Truth
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
– Blaise Pascal
Truth
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
– Isaac Newton
Truth
God’s truth always agrees with itself.
– Richard Sibbes
Truth
Jesus Christ Himself is the final exegesis of all truth. He is all that we need to know about God, and He is all that we need to know about man.
– Major Ian Thomas
Truth
The believer at minimum can declare by his will that he wants the truth, that he wants to know and obey the truth. By prayer and by choice of will he ought to resist every satanic lie, whatever form it may take a thought, an imagination or an argument.
– Watchman Nee
Truth | Choices
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
– Thomas Aquinas
Salvation | Truth
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
– Assorted Authors
Truth
If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.
– C.S. Lewis
Truth
Though the light shines on things unclean, yet it is not thereby defiled.
– Augustine
Truth | Light
We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.
– Francis Schaeffer
Faith | Truth
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
– John Quincy Adams
Truth | Passion
The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.
– Assorted Authors
Truth | God
Do we have any records from first-century ‘journalists’ who interviewed eyewitnesses, asked tough questions, and faithfully recorded what they scrupulously determined to be true?
– Lee Strobel
Truth
Attitudes are more important than facts.
– George Macdonald
Attitude | Truth
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
– George Herbert
Truth
It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.
– C.S. Lewis
Truth
Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.
– Assorted Authors
Truth | Love
We are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
– Charles Stanley
Truth
Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and turn even the rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.
– Thomas Fuller
Truth | Beauty
Unless you have a rock-solid commitment to truth, the Bible won’t change your life – it will only be so many words in a sea of words.
– Winkie Pratney
Truth | The Bible
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
– Thomas Aquinas
Truth
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.
– John Owen
Truth
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.
– William Barclay
Truth
A charitable untruth, an uncharitable truth, and an unwise management of truth or love, are all to be carefully avoided of him that would go with a right foot in the narrow way.
– Joseph Hall
Truth | Lying
You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
– Chuck Colson
Truth
God deceiveth thee not.
– Thomas a Kempis
God | Truth
Truth is mighty and will prevail.
– Thomas Brooks
Truth
When thou art obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying is the whole way to hell.
– William Penn
Truth
Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
– Isaac Watts
Apathy | Truth | Parents
Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, “Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law,” he did not state the fact, but he stated a truth deeper than fact, and truer.
– Henry Alford
Truth
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
– C.S. Lewis
Truth
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
– Francis Schaeffer
Truth
Error is always more busy than truth.
– Hosea Ballou
Truth
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Truth | Apathy | Joy
I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
– Assorted Authors
Truth
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
– Francis de Sales
Truth
Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer’s life with truth.
– Watchman Nee
Truth | Knowledge
If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, “You do not understand”, or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other’s highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
– Amy Carmichael
Truth
Your words can enlighten a mind that is darkened.
– Jerry Falwell
Truth
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
– Isaac Newton
Truth
How pitiful that his mind was overruled by his emotion; his reasoning, overcome by his affection. Why is it that men “did not believe the truth?” Because they “had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thess. 2:12). It is not that the truth is unreasonable but that it is not loved. Hence when one truly turns to the Lord he “believes with his heart (not mind) and so is justified” (Rom. 10:10).
– Watchman Nee
Truth | Faith | Justification
The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
– William Cowper
The Holy Spirit | Truth
An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy.
– C.S. Lewis
Theology | Truth
Truth with self-denial is a better pennyworth, than error with all its flesh-pleasing.
– William Gurnall
Truth | Self-denial
No, the Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.
– William Gurnall
Truth
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
– C.S. Lewis
Truth
We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge–the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.’
– C.S. Lewis
Truth | Light
He who loves will rejoice in the Truth, rejoice not in what he has been taught to believe; not in this Church’s doctrine or in that; not in this issue, or in that issue; but “in the Truth.” He will accept only what is real; he will strive to get at facts; he will search for Truth with a humble and unbiased mind, and cherish whatever he finds at any sacrifice.
– Henry Drummond
Truth
Just because someone is sincere in his conviction does not mean that it is true. It is possible to be sincerely wrong.
– Alistair Begg
Truth
We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
– Origen
Truth
The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.
– A. W. Pink
Truth
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
– Isaac Newton
Truth