truth on Honesty

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

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

Lord of grace and truth: You meet us where we are. And when everybody lies to us, you speak with candor and honesty about what’s good, right and true. We can trust you–and we do. That’s why we can rej...

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...

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

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 ...

Gracious God, forgive us when we fail to look honestly at ourselves. It is easy to minimize and justify our sin, believing we can appease our guilt. We are afraid, thinking it is up to us to remove ou...

The last time someone said to you, “I need to talk to you,” how did that strike you? Did you think, Maybe she needs to tell me how much she appreciates me. More likely you thought, I’m in trouble. Whe...

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...

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 ...

The following prayer from the Trappist Monk, Thomas Merton, is vivid in its honesty and captures the challenge of seeking God’s will through a life of prayer: My Lord God, I have no idea where I a...

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

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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.

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...

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

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

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

Help me, I pray, to be someone who tells the truth, even when that truth has to do with my mistakes, my sins. Help me see myself and my actions clearly. Give me the courage to admit when I’ve done wro...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.