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Truth’ [is] what we think it is at any given moment of time.

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

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But n...

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

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

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction . . . For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

We arrive at the truth not by reason alone, but also by the heart.

Belief doesn’t create truth. Unbelief doesn’t destroy truth. Christian faith goes beyond reason but not against reason.

In the novel The Second Coming one of Walker Percy’s characters says about Christians, “I cannot be sure they don’t have the truth. But if they have the truth, why is it the case that they are rep...

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

God of grace and truth, holy and compassionate—Father, Son and Holy Spirit: You hold the universe in Your hands and earth’s oceans hardly moisten Your palm; yet—You number the hairs of our heads and k...

Lord of grace and truth: You meet us where we are. And when everybody lies to us, you speak with candor and honesty about what’s good, right and true. We can trust you–and we do. That’s why we can rej...

Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do truth by their order and in their substance. This is why so many young people tod...

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

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

In the struggle with falsehood art always did win and it always does win! ... And no sooner will falsehood be dispersed than the nakedness of violence will be revealed in all its ugliness – and violen...

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

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

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

The final thing leaders will need is courage … the willingness to tell the truth, to say what is not politely or politically acceptable. … The most common expression of the courage to tell the truth i...

At some point in childhood we all make the powerful discovery that we can manipulate the truth about ourselves.

Holy and merciful God, we need Your grace and love today. We deliberately lie and speak falsehoods. We mislead and deceive with half-truths. We omit facts that make us look bad. We take pleasure in go...

To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.

O God, our Father, in the life and death and resurrection of Jesus you have given us the remedy for sin. In him you have opened to us the way to forgiveness for all our past sins, and you have given u...

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." In ...

In his poem Cocktail Party , T. S. Eliot captures a fundamental truth about human nature and the source of much hurt in the world. People’s actions are rarely driven by outright malice—intended t...