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The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.

During the infamous Dreyfus trial in France, Jewish army officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused of treason, sparking a national scandal marked by anti-Semitism and injustice. Among Dreyfus...

While sexual sin, financial scandals, and toxic work environments hurt pastoral credibility, a more subtle, and probably more common danger is carelessness with the truth. Intellectual integrity matte...

New Testament Mountains Like the Old Testament, the New Testament has plenty of references to mountains.  There’s the Sermon on the Mount, obviously.  Jesus often went onto hills or mountains to pray...

New Testament Mountains Like the Old Testament, the New Testament has plenty of references to mountains.  There’s the Sermon on the Mount, obviously.  Jesus often went onto hills or mountains to pray...

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

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was mean...

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

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

When in doubt, tell the truth.

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

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

Creeds must disagree: it is the whole fun of the thing. If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue h...

I once had the opportunity to speak briefly to a large Mormon audience at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. I told them that I feel badly about the fact that we evangelicals often tell Mormons what th...

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...

A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.

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

Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts.

There’s a somewhat naïve belief among some that, in general, most people are inherently good. While many Christians may not fully embrace John Calvin’s doctrine of total depravity (which I believe is ...

One of my favorite movies is Hoosiers (1986). It tells the story of a small-town basketball team from Hickory, Indiana, that finds greatness under the leadership of their coach, Norman Dale. The...

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...

Paradox has been defined as “Truth standing on her head to attract attention."

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

Who will tell you the truth? An enemy who hates you bitterly, and a friend who loves you dearly.

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

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

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

Truth-oriented Christians love studying Scripture and theology. But sometimes they’re quick to judge and slow to forgive. They’re strong on truth, weak on grace. Grace-oriented Christians love forgive...