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Truth is not some subjective idea that each person can decide for themselves. Our opinions and even our beliefs are not what determines truth. Much of what we may read, listen to, or are told by others is not necessarily the truth and is oftentimes nothing more than someone’s opinion.
In his book, “The Truth War”, John MacArthur wrote, “Truth exists outside of us and remains the same regardless of how we may perceive it. Truth by definition is as fixed and constant as God is immutable. That is because the real truth is the unchanged and unchanging expression of who God is; it is not our own personal and arbitrary interpretation of reality.”
Pastor MacArthur goes on to write, “Truth and meaning are not determined by our intuition, experience, or desire. The true meaning of Scripture-or anything else, for that matter has already been determined and fixed by the mind of God. The task of an interpreter is to discern that meaning. And proper interpretation must precede application.”
(John MacArthur, The Truth War)
Our culture today enjoys extreme hypocrisy by saying there are no absolute truths which in and of itself is a claim of truth. Duh! And yet people accept this not because of sound reason, facts, or evidence, but because they want to be free of God and His authority.
While some truths are hidden or hard to accept and understand, there are many obvious truths in plain sight that all people can see and understand. The issue is that people choose to accept a comforting lie instead of a painful truth. And for that, we will be held accountable.
If there is no God then we are not responsible to the lawgiver or the law and are free to do whatever we desire without being bothered by truth. It was this extreme hatred of God and His truth that drove men like Marx and Darwin to push for a godless ideology of hatred and insanity.
“For God`s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth, since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them.
For his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what he has made.“
(As a result, people are without any excuses)
“For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools.”
Romans 1:18-22
Just as many scientists today ignore real science in favor of supporting their ideology, the same holds for the ruling class of elites who create social justice, systemic racism, and cancel culture in an obvious effort to contaminate truth and reality.
The misinformation and lies they teach and spread support their self-serving narrative which allows them to gain and maintain control and power. What we are seeing now is a result of an entire culture rejecting the revealed truth of God and accepting man’s lies.
In his video lecture “How does truth command me”, R. C. Sproul said this; “The Myth of moral relativism is modern man`s attempt to create an ethical license for sin, to call evil good and good evil. “ (R.C. Sproul) While God rules with complete justice and equity, man only seeks to gain more power and wealth for himself and oppresses others using any means at his or her disposal.
The masses are nothing more than pawns and pieces on the game board for these wicked people to use for their purposes.
The more power men gain the more corruption they spread and history has proven this to be true. Truth is so very important in everything we think, say, or do. If we want to live a lie, we are free to do so, but not without consequences. It is not arrogance to believe the absolute truth when God says it is, no more than to believe in the reality of gravity.
On the contrary, it is the pride of man in his sinful and limited knowledge to think he or she knows better or more than the God who is the “creator of all things whether seen or unseen”. The remainder of this post will be to share quotes about truth from many different authors just as a reminder and reference to the value truths have to all of us. Enjoy.
“The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.”
Edith Sitwell
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run, it’s the truth that prevails.”
Dalai Lama
“Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
Confucius
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
Thomas Sowell
“In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.”
Elvis Presley
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The truth will set you free, but first, it will make you miserable.”
James A. Garfield
“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
Winston Churchill
“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
Franklin Roosevelt
“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.”
1 Corinthians 13:6
“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
Franklin Roosevelt
“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.”
1 Corinthians 13:
“A lie is like a snowball, it starts off small and then grows and grows until a point where it gets so big it falls apart and then the truth is discovered.”
Chris Hughes
“Telling a truth is not only a matter of character but is also a matter of appreciating factual situations and representing them without bias.”
M. K. Soni
“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.”
Bill Copeland
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
Winston Churchill
“They must find it difficult … those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.”
Gerald Massey
“Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.”
Richard M. Nixon
“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
Martin Luther
“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” ( John 8:31,32)
Jesus
“A Christian life and worldview seek to establish the rules of thinking, the rules of determining how we know what is true because not everything that everybody says is true.”
R. C. Sproul
“The Bible plainly teaches that one of the characteristics of the end of this age is that people will develop a capacity for delusion rather than the truth.”
Billy Graham
“People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”
Thomas Sowell
“…that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and man, the Man Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all.” 2 Timothy 23: 4-6
“But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him, God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4: 23,24
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“But truth itself does not change just because our point of view does. As we mature in our ability to perceive truth, truth itself remains fixed. Our duty is to conform all our thoughts to the truth.”
John MacArthur
“Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful, and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.”
Shel Silverstein
“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
Stephen King
“Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.”
Ismail Haniyeh
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
John F. Kennedy
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”
Mahatma Gandhi
‘In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”
Albert Einstein
“Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Reason is the natural order of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
C. S. Lewis
“In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat, and bribery have all been exhausted.”
Michael Musto
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
George Orwell
“… in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather create a sensation to make a point than to further the cause of truth.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain, children, all our lives.”
Albert Einstein
“We all quote scriptures reflecting that God’s ways are not man’s ways, but because of sin we rebel against that truth.”
Stephen Shortridge
“Yes, the truth may hurt but lies will become a crutch and will cripple you.”
Stephen T. Scott
“There’s an old saying that if a lie is told often enough, it becomes the truth. Actually, it doesn’t. What happens is that people simply start believing that it’s true.”
Bailey Jackson
“Since God is a God of truth (Deuteronomy 32: 4) and His Son Jesus Christ is The way, the truth, and the life (John 14: 6) it is not surprising that He hates all forms of untruths from black and white lies to false oaths and witnessing.”
Miriam Kinai
“I have carefully examined the evidence of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity, I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.”
Alexander Hamilton
“These are the things that you should do, speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace; do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate declares the Lord.: Zechariah 8: 16,17
“Who do you trust, who is telling the truth, how do you know? That is a question of epistemology. Ultimately, what is the truth? What is it, the question of “is-ness”? What is real ultimately, is a metaphysical question. Who is the truth is a theological question. How the truth relates to me and defines me is an anthropological question. And, how the truth commands me is an ethical question”
R. C. Sproul
“Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therein lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.”
Norman Geisler
“The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“…Let God be found true but every man a liar.” Romans 3:4 NKJV
“Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart,”
Proverbs 3:3
“The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.”
Ann Landers
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Truth will ultimately prevail where pains is taken to bring it to light.”
George Washington
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
Denis Diderot
“Buy and do not sell- truth, wisdom, instruction, and understanding.”
Proverbs 23:22
“I believe that it is better, to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
H. L. Mencken
“People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.”
Andy Rooney
“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”
Aristotle
“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”
Thomas Mann
‘Tell the children the truth.’
Bob Marley
“Learn what is true in order to do what is right.”
Thomas Huxley
“He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”
John Ruskin
“Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.”
Michael Jackson
“Stop hanging out with people that tell you what you want to hear. Hang out with people who tell you the truth.”
Eric Thomas
“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.”
Aristotle
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
Flannery O’Connor
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
Thomas Jefferson
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
Thomas Jefferson
“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
Chief Joseph
“The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“The alternative to practicing what Scripture calls speaking the truth in love is continuing to communicate a lie in fear. That’s no way to live”.
Beth Moore
“Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being.” Psalm 51:6
“To reach that end goal you and I must be willing to be straightforward with one another. We must be willing and prepared to stare at ourselves in the mirror and speak the truth.”
Mark Devro
Excerpts from John MacArthur’s sermon
“Facing a Tolerant World with Intolerant Truth” Jan 1, 2023 gty.org – LINK
“So just exactly what are we dealing with? We’re dealing with not necessarily a well-crafted theology—not like the liberalism of the past, not even like cults that are framed up in some kind of rational fashion. What we have is basically a rejection of the truth on just a generic level. It could be any truth. It could be the truth of the gospel or the truth of your gender. The situation that we’re in says there’s no absolute truth, there’s no absolute truth. That’s the current zeitgeist: no absolute truth.“
‘Moral relativism comes along and says there’s no ultimate authority, nobody can tell you how to behave, morally. Personal freedom says there are no divine rules, and humanistic atheism says there’s no sovereign judge. No absolutes, no ultimate authority, no divine rules, and no sovereign judge. And that’s perfectly fine to the sinner. He likes that. That’s amiable to him because that’s natural to his fallen condition. So it’s easy to create a whole culture that thinks that way, because you already have an affinity to that kind of deception in every human heart.”
“Truth is objective. No person has truth in himself. In other words, you don’t determine truth, it all comes from God. That is a sweeping statement: It all comes from God. Whatever is true about the created world is true of the created world because God created it that way. Whatever is true about the spiritual world is true because that’s the way God designed it. No human being or human beings are the origin of any truth at all, ever. No human is the source of establishing truth.”
“In Galatians 1, Paul says, “If an angel of God comes and says something other than the truth, don’t believe.” What someone thinks is true is irrelevant; that has nothing to do with whether it is true. There is no individual truth, there is only that which is true. And Scripture is God’s revealed truth.”
This is where we know the spiritual realm, as to its truth. False religion devises lies and calls it truth. Mysticism says you can find your own spiritual truth. You hear people say, “Well I’m spiritual; I’m not religious. And I don’t go to church, but I’m spiritual.” That is meaningless.”
“No truth has ever come by the will of man, 2 Peter 1:20. “All Scripture,” 2 Timothy, “is inspired by God.”
“So all truth is from God. All truth is objective; it’s all outside of us. It would all be true if you never lived or had a thought or had an opinion.
“Meaning is determined by the Creator and not by any human being. In no way is spiritual truth ever defined by someone’s experience. It’s not unique to an individual, it is universally true. And of course, this deals a heavy blow to a very large segment of professing Christianity, who are listening for the voice of God in their heads or seeking some kind of intuitive epiphany with the illusion the truth is out there, and if they listen they can hear it in an individual way.”
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