Quotation 1 : | FALSEHOOD "A lie consists in speaking a falsehood with the intention of deceiving." |
| Augustine |
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Quotation 2 : | FALSEHOOD "Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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Quotation 3 : | FALSEHOOD "We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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Quotation 4 : | FALSEHOOD "Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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Quotation 5 : | FALSEHOOD "Falsehood is in a hurry; it may be at any moment detected and punished; truth is calm, serene; its judgment is on high; its king cometh out of the chambers of eternity." |
| Joseph Parker |
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Quotation 6 : | FALSEHOOD "Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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Quotation 7 : | FALSEHOOD "You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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Quotation 8 : | FALSEHOOD "A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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Quotation 9 : | FALSEHOOD "I would not utter what I believed to be a falsehood concerning the Lord, even though the evil one offered me the bait of saving all mankind thereby." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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Quotation 10 : | FALSEHOOD "It is perilous to separate thinking rightly, from acting rightly. He is already half false who speculates on truth and does not do it. The penalty paid by him who speculates on truth without doing it, is, that by degrees the very truth he holds becomes a" |
| Frederick W. Robertson |
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Quotation 11 : | FALSEHOOD "Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable." |
| Hosea Ballou |
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Quotation 12 : | FALSEHOOD "Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage." |
| Hosea Ballou |
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Quotation 13 : | FALSEHOOD "Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth." |
| Hosea Ballou |
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Quotation 14 : | FALSEHOOD "Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood" |
| Isaac Watts |
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Quotation 15 : | FALSEHOOD "It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world." |
| William Barclay |
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Quotation 16 : | FALSEHOOD "Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves." |
| Daniel Webster |
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Quotation 17 : | FALSEHOOD "Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!" |
| Thomas Carlyle |
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Quotation 18 : | FALSEHOOD "Think about how much falsehood and deceit there is in the world! How much exaggeration! How many untruths are added to a simple story! How many things are left out, if it does not serve the speaker's interest to tell them! How few there are around us of w" |
| J.C. Ryle |
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Quotation 19 : | FALSEHOOD "The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself." |
| John Calvin |
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Quotation 20 : | FALSEHOOD "Unbelief is not a misfortune to be pitied; it is a sin to be deplored. Is sinfulness lies in the fact that it contradicts the word of the one true God and thus attributes falsehood to Him." |
| John Stott |
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Quotation 21 : | FALSEHOOD "A willful falsehood told is a cripple, not able to stand by itself without another to support it. It is easy to tell a lie, but hard to tell only one lie." |
| Thomas Fuller |
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Quotation 22 : | FALSEHOOD "The fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they" |
| John Calvin |
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Quotation 23 : | TRUTH "An honest heart loves the Truth." |
| A.W. Pink |
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Quotation 24 : | TRUTH "The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a Person who is the Truth." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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Quotation 25 : | TRUTH "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Quotation 26 : | TRUTH "I believe that in the end the truth will conquer." |
| Cyprian |
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Quotation 27 : | TRUTH "A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots." |
| Mark Twain |
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Quotation 28 : | TRUTH "It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it." |
| A.A. Hodge |
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Quotation 29 : | TRUTH "It is to be lamented that the term irresistible grace has ever been used, since it suggests the idea of a mechanical and coercive influence upon an unwilling subject, while, in truth, it is the transcendent act of the infinite Creator, making the creature" |
| A.A. Hodge |
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Quotation 30 : | TRUTH "No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre." |
| A.A. Hodge |
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Quotation 31 : | TRUTH "Do not burn false fire upon God's altar; do not pose and pretend, either to Him or to yourself, in your religious exercises; do not say more than you mean, or use exaggerated language that goes beyond the facts, when speaking to Him whose word is truth." |
| A.J. Gossip |
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Quotation 32 : | TRUTH "All that is glorious is but a phase of His infinite excellence, and so all truth and holiness, found in the Holy Scripture, are only a new tribute to Him who is the Truth, the Holy One of God." |
| A.T. Pierson |
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Quotation 33 : | TRUTH "The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error." |
| A.W. Pink |
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Quotation 34 : | TRUTH "Like the doctrine of the Holy Trinity and the miraculous birth of our Savior, the truth of election must be received with simple, unquestioning faith." |
| A.W. Pink |
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Quotation 35 : | TRUTH "For not only does sound reason direct us to refuse the guidance of those who do or teach anything wrong, but it is by all means vital for the lover of truth, regardless of the threat of death, to choose to do and say what is right even before saving his o" |
| A.W. Tozer |
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Quotation 36 : | TRUTH "There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its biblical sense, but something else and something less." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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Quotation 37 : | TRUTH "The immense step from the Babe at Bethlehem to the living, reigning triumphant Lord Jesus, returning to earth for His own people - that is the glorious truth proclaimed throughout Scripture. As the bells ring out the joys of Christmas, may we also be aler" |
| Alan Redpath |
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Quotation 38 : | TRUTH "It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God." |
| Albert Barnes |
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Quotation 39 : | TRUTH "Mr. Osteen can be assured that his weak and evasive non-answer to this reporter's question will put him at very little risk for arrest. But then, pandering prophets are rarely at much of a risk from the public anyway. There was no conviction in his answer" |
| Albert Mohler |
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Quotation 40 : | TRUTH "Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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Quotation 41 : | TRUTH "One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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Quotation 42 : | TRUTH "It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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Quotation 43 : | TRUTH "While the agent of renovation is the Divine Spirit, and the condition of renovation is our cleaving to Christ, the medium of renovation and the weapon which the transforming grace employs is "the word of the truth of the gospel," whereby we are sanctified" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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Quotation 44 : | TRUTH "Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness or possible unbelief of your friends to dissuade you. Let us rise and march to the place of duty, and there declare what grea" |
| Alistair Begg |
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Quotation 45 : | TRUTH "The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert." |
| Pasquier Quesnel |
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Quotation 46 : | TRUTH "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it." |
| Patrick Henry |
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Quotation 47 : | TRUTH "Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood." |
| Ralph Cudworth |
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Quotation 48 : | TRUTH "Christ is the key which unlocks the golden doors into the temple of Divine truth." |
| A.W. Pink |
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Quotation 49 : | TRUTH "Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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Quotation 50 : | TRUTH "To risk reputation and affection for the truth's sake is so demanding that to do it constantly you will need a degree of moral principle that only the Spirit of God can work in you. Do not turn your back like a coward, but play the man. Follow boldly in y" |
| Alistair Begg |
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Quotation 51 : | TRUTH "Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "rel" |
| Alister McGrath |
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Quotation 52 : | TRUTH "All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power to close the door of the mind. We can lose this power through disuse or increase it by use, by the daily discipline of the" |
| Amy Carmichael |
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Quotation 53 : | TRUTH "We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound" |
| Amy Carmichael |
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Quotation 54 : | TRUTH "If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary l" |
| Amy Carmichael |
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Quotation 55 : | TRUTH "If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of" |
| Amy Carmichael |
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Quotation 56 : | TRUTH "The greatest test of whether the holiness we profess to seek or to attain is truth and life will be whether it produces an increasing humility in us. In man, humility is the one thing needed to allow God's holiness to dwell in him and shine through him. T" |
| Andrew Murray |
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Quotation 57 : | TRUTH "The government of the United States is acknowledged by the wise and good of other nations, to be the most free, impartial, and righteous government of the world; but all agree, that for such a government to be sustained many years, the principles of truth" |
| Emma Willard |
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Quotation 58 : | TRUTH "A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation." |
| Howard Crosby |
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Quotation 59 : | TRUTH "Yes, it is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams, the most abundant and most marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men! Through it , God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow f" |
| Johannes Gutenberg |
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Quotation 60 : | TRUTH "Falsehood is in a hurry; it may be at any moment detected and punished; truth is calm, serene; its judgment is on high; its king cometh out of the chambers of eternity." |
| Joseph Parker |
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