truth on Dishonesty

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...

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 ...

Prayer of Adoration Lord, our Lord – How excellent is your name in all the earth. Because of who you are – we praise You. Because of what you’ve done – we thank You. You are a Father to the fathe...

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

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

When in doubt, tell the truth.

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

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

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

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...

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

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

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

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

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

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

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Pastor: If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. People: But if we confess our sins, God, who is faithful and just, will forgive our sins and cleanse us from a...

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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 ...

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

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

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...

There are many ways to be a saint, and at times our fidelity may look like betrayal. We may have to become “saints of darkness.” We may have to be saints whose light seems to go out as we wander in th...

But to deviate from the truth for the sake of some prospect of hope of our own can never be wise, however slight that deviation may be. It is not our judgement of the situation which can show us what ...

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

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

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...