truth on Doubts

If angels can fly because they take themselves lightly, does God take Himself lightly?

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

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

Assurance grows by repeated conflict. . . . When we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again . . . and when these things have been repeated to us an...

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...

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

Truth enjoys but a short time of triumph between two long eras — in the first of them it is condemned as paradoxical, in the last is despised as trivial..

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

O Holy One, we call to you and name you as eternal, ever-present, and boundless in love. Yet there are times, O God, when we fail to recognize you in the dailyness of our lives. Sometimes shame clench...

“I know” seems to describe a state of affairs which guarantees what is known, guarantees it as a fact. One always forgets the expression, “I thought I knew.”

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

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

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

While I am not one to see a demon behind every bush or spiritual warfare in every difficulty, the fact is that we are regularly engaged in the struggle against good and evil—whether we know it or not....

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

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...

It is not new truths we need; we need old truths recently forgotten.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

God, we come with hesitant steps and uncertain motives to sweep out the corners where sin has accumulated, and uncover the ways we have strayed from Your truth. Expose the empty and barren places wher...

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

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

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

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