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Consider using the prayer of adoration by itself or as a prelude to the prayer of confession. Prayer of Adoration Lord of yesterday, today, and tomorrow: You alone rule the universe; setting time...

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 ...

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

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

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

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...

Most Holy Lord, we speak with eloquence, but have no love. We speak truth to power, pontificate, and smugly consider our knowledge superior to others, but display little to no charity. We give sacrifi...

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...

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...

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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

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

Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.

For years Kyle and I [Jamin Goggin] had no trouble looking critically upon others in their quest for power. We bemoaned the rock-star pastors who were in the spotlight, whose churches appeared to be m...

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

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

Power is present in almost all social situations we find ourselves in. Whether it be the corporation you work at, the village zoning committee, the street crew you work on, the neighborhood, the playg...

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

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...

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

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

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

The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has t...

As my AA, NA, and CA friends have repeatedly reminded me, rigorous honesty is the first rule of recovery.

Tell the truth and write about freedom and fight for it, however you can, and you will be richly rewarded.

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

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...

If you’ve ever watched a war movie, or a film that takes place in the military, you’re likely to have encountered a specific scene, in which a subordinate will have something to tell a senior officer ...