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Heavenly Father, forgive us when we become so consumed with the details of life that we do not see the opportunities that you have placed before us. Open our eyes to your call to extend love, by commu...

In June 2024, I (A. J.) had the opportunity to visit the Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem, Oregon, to meet with a group of inmates who had read one of my recent books. The experience was...

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

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

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

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

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The following story is a great analogy to what life is like before we find we experience the eternal truth of the gospel. In Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Richard Dreyfuss’s...

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

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

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

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...

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Let us not mock God with metaphor, analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded credulity of earlier ages: let us walk through the door. …………………………...

“Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?”

Recently, when I was in London, I went to the National Gallery. It was a weekday, but it was still crowded with people wearing headsets, staring at famous paintings, listening to a narrator explain th...

When in doubt, tell the truth.

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 ...

Prayer of Adoration Great God our Father: You are good and You are strong. You are faithful and true, and You won’t tempt or lie to us. In a world that appeals to our sinful cravings and dominated b...

Alltruths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

In the land whose founding metaphor was the mutuality of John Winthrop’s seventeenth-century vision of a “city set on a hill,” we live more and more in estranged, hostile, exclusive enclaves, linked o...