“If we all fell through one man’s sin (Adam), we will all be saved by a Greater Man’s (Jesus) righteousness.” ——Gary Amirault (Romans 5:18, 1 Corinthians 15:22)
“Whoever the Son of God (Jesus Christ) sets free is free indeed!” ——Jesus Christ, John 8:38, The Bible
“Pontius Pilate, standing before Jesus the Christ, asked Him, ‘What is Truth?’ He asked the wrong question. If he had asked, ‘Who is Truth,’ Jesus would have revealed Himself as ‘the Truth’ to him.” ——Gary Amirault, founder of Tentmaker
“The Truth is not a religion, the correct denomination, the teachings of some great man or woman, a body of knowledge, the ‘right’ book, a deep philosophy, the correct concept or a set of laws or governing principles. It can never be ascertained through the ‘scientific method,’ logic or reasoning. All these are instruments that fall far short of being able to fathom ‘the Truth.’ The Truth is a person who can only be known through a deep, intimate personal relationship in covenant. Covenant is an exchange of lives. You will NEVER know the truth until ‘The Truth’ becomes your life and your life becomes His. Truth requires absolute, total surrender to the Son of God. It is an exchange of life in the most intimate way in the universe. It is a marriage of souls. It is a bond that sets free. It is a paradox. And when you enter this paradox, you will be free indeed AND you will then also know True LOVE.” ——Gary Amirault, founder of Tentmaker Ministries
“I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father (creator of all things) but through Me.” ——Jesus, the Messiah, John 14:6, The Bible
“The Truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it.” ——Author Unknown
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” ——Josh Billings
“Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.” ——Theodore Parker
“The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody’s church.” ——Robert Farrar Capon
“Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.” ——Winston Churchill
“To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle.” ——George Orwell
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” ——Galileo Galilei
“We are often unprepared for Truth, which is why Truth is revealed to us progressively.” ——Chip Brogden
“There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.” ——Agnes Repplier
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.” ——Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.” ——Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.” ——John Gilmore
“Do not fear to repeat what has already been said. Men need the truth dinned into their ears many times and from all sides. The first rumor makes them prick up their ears, the second registers, and the third enters.” ——Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laënnec
“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” ——Jim Davis
“The truth is ‘hate speech’ only to those who have something to hide.” ——Michael Rivero
“From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth; from the laziness that is content with half-truths; from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth – oh God of Truth deliver us!” ——Author Unknown
“The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.” ——Albert Einstein
“God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.” ——Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” ——Henry David Thoreau
“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.” ——Martin Luther
“In this world, those who seek the truth will also find trouble.” ——Gary Amirault
“One truth out of context can prove very dangerous.” ——Gregory Phillips
“To some the truth is an insult, to others life from the dead.” ——Gary Amirault
“Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.” ——Chuck Swindoll
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ——George Orwell
“Candor is a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate.” ——Wilhelm Stekel
“Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.” ——Sydney J. Harris
“The ability to lie is a liability.” ——Author Unknown
“Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.” ——George MacDonald
“When in doubt, tell the truth.” ——Mark Twain
“Always tell the truth. That way you don’t have to remember what you said.” ——Mark Twain
“It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.” ——C. S. Lewis
“It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.” ——Henry Kissinger
“Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.” ——Vincent de Paul
“The folks who know the truth aren’t talking…. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!” ——Tom Waits
“If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.” ——Stopford Brooke
“First they ignore it, then they laugh at it, then they say they knew it all along.” ——Alexander Humboldt
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” ——Arthur Schopenhauer
“A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.” ——Soren Kierkegaard
“Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses.” ——Norman Grubb
“Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.” ——Rev. Denny Brake
“He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.” ——Tryon Edwards
“There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn’t so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.” ——Soren Kierkegaard
“Man can certainly keep on lying… but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel… but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.” ——Karl Barth
“When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest.” ——Author Unknown
“The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” ——Stephen Hawking
“Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray.” ——Henry Ward Beecher
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” ——Niels Bohr
“The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.” ——William James
“I don’t think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That’s a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.” ——Jeff Melvoin
“All generalizations, including this one, are false.” ——Mark Twain
“The highest truth cannot be put into words.” ——Lao Tzu
“The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf — a philosopher or servant, — but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.” ——Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899), American political leader, orator
“The truth was obscure, too plain and too pure. To live it you had to explode.” ——Bob Dylan
“The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility.” ——Chuck Colson
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ——Martin Luther King Jr.
“To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.” ——Bronson Alcott
“There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.” ——Goethe
“In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.” ——René Descartes, Rules
“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.” ——Dresden James
“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.” ——Adrian Rodgers
“A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.” ——F. W. Farrar
“The way of discovery still lies open to us in divine things if we have the moral courage and the desire to go to the fountain head of truth, instead of filling our vessels out of this doctor’s compendium… or be held spellbound by the shadow of a few great names.” ——Rev. J. B. Herd
“Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.” ——Author Unknown
“Our first decision about Truth is based upon Who Jesus is. With that question settled many Christians are content, but Truth is living. Truth will continue to reveal Himself to us and around us for as long as we will allow it.” ——Chip Brogden
“…for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.” ——Blaise Pascal
“The thought that provokes thought is much more valuable than the thought that is only an echo of an accepted truth.” ——Thomas W. Hanford
“To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.” ——Michael Servetus
“Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.” ——Blaise Pascal
“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.” ——Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.” ——George MacDonald
“The one who buries the Truth in the ground for safekeeping will lose it, while the one who does something with the Truth will receive more Truth. This is why some grow spiritually and some do not.” ——Chip Brogden
“When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.” ——Gandhi
“A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.” ——Thomas Brooks
“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.” ——Blaise Pascal
“It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.” ——Adrian Rodgers
“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
“The best defense of the Truth is just to tell it, rather than to spend a lot of time refuting error.” ——Gary Amirault
“The Truth is illusive because we prefer lies.” ——Gary Amirault
“There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.” ——Daniel Webster
“I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.” ——Oliver North
“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.” ——Edward R. Murrow
“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.” ——Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” ——Thomas Paine
“Truth is not determined by majority vote.” ——Doug Gwyn
“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
“Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it they don’t believe it because it’s not the truth they want to hear.” ——Helena Cassadine
“Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.” ——Mahatma Gandhi
“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.” ——Herbert Sebastien Agar
“We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth… For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.” ——Patrick Henry
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” ——Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.” ——Adolf Hitler
“Half a truth is often a great lie.” ——Benjamin Franklin
“Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion—and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion … while Truth again reverts to a new minority.” ——Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Danish philosopher
“Beat me with the truth, don’t torture me with lies.” ——Author Unknown
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” ——Lenin (1870-1924)
“Live truth instead of professing it.” ——Elbert Hubbard
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” ——Albert Einstein
“Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.” ——John Ruskin
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” ——Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.” ——Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), French author
“Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.” ——Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.” ——Aldous Huxley, Island
“Oh what a wicked web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” ——Sir Walter Scott
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” ——Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), American humorous journalist
“A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.” ——Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658), Spanish philosopher and writer
“There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.” ——George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906), English secularist
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, they are the only ones who ever have.” ——Margaret Mead
“When Pontius Pilate, a powerful man said ‘What is Truth,’ the Truth stood right before Him in bodily form. Instead of embracing the Truth, because of the fear of man, he had Him crucified. We must not judge Pilate, we all share his fear.” ——Gary Amirault
Some times a word, phrase, picture or thought comes along and stops you in its tracks. And you are caught. And you have to make up your mind that you have to face some truth you have run from or have refused to look at deeply and honestly for fear of man. May this be such a moment for somebody today. A synonyn for repent is “turn.” Turn to truth.