Campus CrossWalk Magazine: 2008 Spring Issue -- Truth Quotes

Current Campus CrossWalk theme: “The Emerging Challenge!” (Connecting the Lost with Christ’s love--and His Church). The following quotations relate to truth and discernment, or the lack of same.

“The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.” ~ Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923), South African author.
“If truth is relative, it’s impossible to lie.” ~ Gene Edward Veith
“There are some who feel obliged to capitulate to the most fashionable ideas of the moment, and reinterpret Christianity accordingly.” ~ Colin Brown, theologian.
“By sheer grace, God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world. He does not abandon us to those rapturous experiences and lofty moods that come over us like a dream. God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 – 1945), Life Together, p. 27.
“Our culture is saying truth is no longer that which corresponds with reality. Truth emerges out of a specific community or culture. Christians have their truth. Muslims have their truth. he New Age advocates have their truth. Individually, truth is that which will produce a better reality for me or give me an excuse for having messed up my present reality. It is my truth if it works for me.” ~ Don Matzat
“For Christianity to surrender the claim that the gospel is universally true and objectively established is to surrender the center of our faith… We cannot retreat to the claim that biblical truth is merely true for us.” ~ Albert Mohler
“I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may. I think I have discovered the highest good. It is love.” ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968), Civil rights leader and Baptist minister.
“If the world goes against truth then Athanasius goes against the world.” ~ Athanasius (4th Century A.D. Church Father)
“Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.” ~ Matthew Henry
“I am quite sure that the best way to promote union is to promote truth.” ~ Charles Spurgeon (1834 – 1892), Baptist preacher.
“The tendency of modern thought is to reject dogmas, creeds, and every kind of bounds in religion. It is thought grand and wise to condemn no opinion whatsoever, and to pronounce all earnest and clever teachers trustworthy, however heterogeneous and mutually destructive their opinions may be. Everything, forsooth, is true and nothing is false! Everybody is right and nobody is wrong! Everybody is likely to be saved and nobody is to be lost!” ~ J. C. Ryle
“Some preach the truth and don’t have love. Some preach love and don’t have the truth. Get the mixture right. You have to mix it.” ~ Vance Havner
“When we talk about the word ‘faith’ and the word ‘certainty,’ we’ve got a whole lot of problems there. What do we mean by ‘certainty’? . . . Certainty can be dangerous. What we need is a proper confidence that’s always seeking the truth and that’s seeking to live in the way God wants us to live, but that also has the proper degree of self-critical and self-questioning passion.” ~ Brian McLaren
“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 name before the other’s highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying peace, peace where there is no peace; if I forget the poignant words, ‘Let love be without dissimulation’ and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.” ~ Amy Carmichael (1867-1951), Missionary in India.
“The business of truth is not to be deserted even to the sacrifice of our lives, for we live not for this age of ours, nor for the princes, but for the Lord.” ~ Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531), Swiss Reformer.