TRUTH

RELATED INDEX TOPICS: Honesty/Dishonesty, Confessing, Conviction/Compromise, Humility/Pride.

         1. Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, & falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.

         2. Words sometimes serve as a smoke screen to obscure the truth, rather than as a searchlight to reveal it.

         3. Truth is always the strongest argument.--Sophocles

         4. He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood.--Augustine

         5. Truth never dies, but it is often paralyzed by man's indifference.

         6. All truths are equally true but not equally important.

         7. Truth fears nothing but concealment.

         8. Truth uttered before its time is often dangerous.

         9. When truth is silent, false views seem plausible.

         10. Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil World.

         11. Truth needs no crutches; If it limps it's a lie.

         12. If a cause is just it will eventually triumph in spite of all the propaganda issued against it.

         13. There are three sides to every story: Your side, my side, the truth.

         14. Truth resisted loses its power over the mind.

         15. Truth is hard & uncompromising at times. Its followers are a hardy breed & more often than not they are despised & rejected.

         16. Agnosticism doubts truth, rationalism questions truth, infidelity scoffs at truth, logic dissects truth, education searches for truth, but Jesus said, "I am the Truth."

         17. Plato, 300 years before Christ, predicted that if ever the truly good man were to appear, the Man Who would tell the truth, He would have His eyes gouged out & in the end be crucified. That risk was once taken, in its fullest measure. The Man appeared. He told the World the Truth.--About itself.--And even made the preposterous claim, "I am the Truth." As Plato foresaw, that Man was crucified.--Elisabeth Elliot

         18. Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented.

         19. The grandest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.

         20. Truth reforms as well as informs.

         21. We have the truth & we need not be afraid to say so.

         22. We should never retreat before truth simply because we cannot explain it.

         23. Truth seldom goes without a scratched face.

         24. Truth is not ashamed of its name of nakedness; it can walk openly & boldly.

         25. If a thousand old beliefs are ruined in our march to truth, we must still march on.

         26. Truth must be spoken, however it be taken.