truth on Technological Progress

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...

A false religion fears the progress of all truth; a true religion seeks and recognizes truth wherever it can be found.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It's a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and se...

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

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

Pragmatism may be defined simply as the approach to reality that defines truth as “that which works.” The pragmatist is concerned about results, and the results determine the truth. The problem with t...

Sir Isaac Newton was one of the great scientists of all time. Most men of science today agree that his great book Principia is the greatest scientific book ever written. Yet of his achievemen...

Thomas Aquinas, the famous medieval theologian, created one of the greatest intellectual achievements of Western civilization in his Summa Theologica. It’s a massive work: thirty-eight treatises, thre...

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

Prophets were known for both their foretelling and forthtelling. Foretelling speaks to revealing future events and forthtelling speaks to the truth that God has already revealed. Much of what we think...

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

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

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..

The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.

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

If man tries to grasp at truth of himself, he tries to grasp at it a priori . But in that case he does not do what he has to do when the truth comes to him. He does not believe. If he did, he wou...

Truth’ [is] what we think it is at any given moment of time.

Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery ...

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

No truth which human beings may articulate can ever be articulated in a culture-transcending way-but that does not mean that the truth thus articulated does not transcend culture.

Almighty and everlasting God, you made the universe with all its marvelous order, its atoms, worlds, and galaxies, and the infinite complexity of living creatures: Grant that, as we probe the mysterie...

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

..the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

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

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

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

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...

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction . . . For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom: Enlighten by your Holy Spirit those who teach and those who learn, that, rejoicing in the knowledge of your truth, they may worship you and serve you from gen...