The greatest jihad is to say the truth in front of the king. — Hadith

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. — Mark Twain

One of the great difficulties is to keep before the audience’s mind the question of Truth. They always think you are recommending Christianity not because it is true but because it is good….You have to keep forcing them back, and again back, to the real point. God in the Dock , CS Lewis

Only today I have found a passage in a Christian writer where he recommends his own version of Christianity on the ground that ‘only such a faith can outlast the death of old cultures and the birth of new civilisations.’ You see the little rift? ‘Believe this, not because it is true, but for some other reason.’ That’s the game.” — C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters end of chapter XXIII

A writer who says there are no truths, or that all truth is merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t. Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy.

I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I cannot have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven. –A. W. Tozer

“Let God be true but every man a liar” is the language of true faith. –A. W. Tozer

Inconsistencies … cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true. Samuel Johnson: Rasselas [the character Imlac]

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach. What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not suggestions but ten commandments. TED KOPPEL, Duke commencement address

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world. C. H. SPURGEON

If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.. — Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Fight truth decay. . .study the Bible daily.

Solomon bids us (Prov 23:23) to buy the truth, but doth not tell us what it must cost, because we must get it though it be never so dear. We must love it both shining and scorching. Every parcel of truth is precious as the filings of gold; we must either live with it, or die for it. THOMAS BROOKS

Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain’d Against revolted multitudes the Cause Of Truth, in word mightier than they in Arms; And for the testimony of Truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence. John Milton. 1608-1674. Paradise Lost. Book VI, 29 – 35

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. — C. C. Colton —

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