bible and theology on Half-Truths

Our Lord—Today we have given You praise and thanks for who You are and what You’ve done for us. Now, we also give You our needs—for we are not self-sufficient. We need You! We pray for those dear to u...

May God bless you with a restless discomfort about easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may seek truth boldly and love deep within your heart. May God bless you...

Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and ob...

God bless us with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths and superficial relationships, so that we may live deep within our hearts. God bless us with righteous anger at injustice, oppression, and exp...

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant. . . . The truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind.

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Truth enjoys but a short time of triumph between two long eras — in the first of them it is condemned as paradoxical, in the last is despised as trivial..

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Blessed are the liars, / For the truth can be awkward.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The shortest distance between a human being and the truth is a story.

The simple truth of our being gets lost in the metanarratives we spin. We become the fictions we live. Consequently, our way of being in the world is so false and unnatural that our presence is thorou...

Truth is harder than a lie, The dark seems safer than the light, And everyone has a heart that loves to hide, I’m a mess and so are you, We’ve built walls nobody can get through, Yeah, it may be hard,...

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

When we observe evil, sinful behavior from a distance, the inclination is simply to see people as acting with malicious intent. We assume they are “bad people.” But often the motivations that lead to ...

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.