truth on Fairness

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 ...

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...

We have an outdoor church readerboard (yep, manual, press-in-the-grooves-black-plastic-letters) near a busy street that I enjoy changing every couple of weeks. The challenge of saying something meanin...

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

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

Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.

Gracious God, our hearts are often divided between what is good and what is evil. Not one of us is pure in heart yet we long to have a whole heart. Where there is hypocrisy in our life, please n...

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

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

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

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

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...

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

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

Righteous God, we receive your grace and forget your justice. You teach us to move with compassion yet we have remained complacent. God, forgive us for our complacency and our apathy. Fuel us with you...

When in doubt, tell the truth.

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

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

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

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...

Truth consists in the mind giving to things the importance they have in reality.

We arrive at the truth not by reason alone, but also by the heart.

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

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 ...

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

The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works. The Lord is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. ...

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

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...