Truth

O God, Father, Saviour and Revealer, sanctify all those who in the midst of truth seek more truth. As they question the authority of the: past, increase their loyalty to the things which are eternal…

The worst thing about falsehood, is not that it is not true, but that it presents itself as truth.

Falsehood will be so mingled with truth, that only those who have the guidance of the Holy Spirit will be able to distinguish truth form error. –Manusscript Releases, vol. 7, 359.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Years ago, I heard about a man that had a fabric shop. And this is back in England, and they used to pick the size of the foot, and the inch was based upon the size of the king’s foot…

A distinguished minister questioned an equally distinguished actor concerning the difference in their appeal to people. “Why is it,” asked the minister, “that you appear night after night before great crowds, and I am getting no crowd at all?…

Phillips Brooks once told of a missionary in Africa who on a furlough bought a sundial that it might help his folk in the African village to tell the time of day…

‘The truth can lose nothing by close investigation. Let the word of God speak for itself, let it be its own interpreter, and the truth will shine like precious gems amid the rubbish.’ - Ellen G. White

Nikolai Berdysev, a Russian philosopher, said: “In the very act of affirming himself man has lost himself. He has conquered the earth, he has created the marvels, but his assurance in himself has gone…

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. –Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)

“Tis notantiquity,nor author, Thatmakestruth truth,altho’Time’sdaughter.

Truth: It is not enough to argue in defense of the truth…

ONE morning, I got up at 3:30 a.m. and decided not to turn on the light. Now, there is a light right next to me on my nightstand, but I decided not to turn on the light…

In the church of a little town in Illinois there was to be a public debate on the subject of baptism. A large crowd gathered. The minister who was to deny the need of Bible Baptism appeared…

O God, Who Art Nigh to All thyself the Truth, whom to know is perfect knowledge: instruct us with thy divine wisdom, and teach us thy law; that we may know the truth and walk in it; through him in whom the…

Letthe end of thyargumentbe rather to discover a doubtful truth than a commandingwit.

Justastruth and virtuecreate in thesoula positive heaven of bliss,so their abandonment is ultimately followed by a misery like that of perdition itself…

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

On June 10th in 1555, a young gentleman named Thomas Haukes was burned at the stake in Coggeshall, Essex, by order of the ruling church. What was his crime? He refused to have his infant child baptized (Christened) in the State Church…

Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near the truth, it is the more likely to lead astray.

If there is a point of truth that you do not understand, upon which you do not agree, investigate, compare scripture with scripture, sink the shaft of truth deep down into the mine of God’s Word…

A halber emez iz a gantzer lign (A half truth is a whole lie.)

It is not best to try to still the voice of conscience by repeating the popular maxim, “If you are only honest, that is all.”…

Truth is walking alongside a river. Since it is so hot outside, he wants to cool himself off. So he decides to take off all his clothes, hang them on a tree and take a swim. He’s doing the swan…

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

“Fight truth decay-brush up on your Bible.”

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. –Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

days later. We speak of them with admiration as the Pilgrim Fathers days later. We speak of them with admiration as the Pilgrim Fathers, and honour them for their love of, and fight for, freedom to worship…

If you don’t look facts in the face, they have a way of stabbing you in the back.

Truth is stubborn. It doesn’t apologize to anyone.

How many of you would like to go in for brain surgery and have the doctor say, “Well, I think it’s a brain, but my colleague thinks it’s a cantaloupe — whatever you believe is okay”?…

It is in a vacuum of truth that the spores of error most easily take hold. Pr. Larry Kirkpatrick

American Colonial history records a certain town meeting in a Massachusetts Bay Colony village. The people were called together to consider a resolution drawn up by the pastor of the village church in condemnation of a community evil…

IF YOU are diagnosed with a disease, you do not want your doctor to spare your feelings and lie to you. You want your doctor to tell you the truth so that you can get your illness fixed…

When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.

Someone has described our age in these words: “We are at one of those cynical junctures of history where men have discovered the almost rightness of a great deal that is wrong, and the almost wrongness of a great deal that is…

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

Whoever is afraid of submitting a question to the test of free discussion is more in love with his own opinion than with truth.

A biologist recently did some research on shrimp and found some interesting things. Shrimp through a go molting process several times a year…

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Cicero tells of a prisoner who, having spent his entire life in a dark dungeon, and knowing the light of day only from a single beam which filtered through a crack in the prison wall, was full of distress when he was…

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

A MAN asked three of his friends to tell him the meaning of truth. One of his friends was a psychologist; he said truth is what one feels it to be…

Seek the truth Listen to the truth Teach the truth Love the truth Abide by the truth And defend the truth Unto death.

C HA N G E R ES I S TE D BY C L E R G Y 93 Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer and physicist who made his first scien­ tific discoveries while a student in Pisa…

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.