Interesting Quotes

What is truth and what is falsehood we must merely apprehend, for both seem incapable of analysis." (Bertrand Russell)

"Perhaps no one has been sufficiently truthful about what truthfulness is." (Nietzsche)

"Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.’ Pilate said to him, ‘What is truth?’" (John 18:37,38)

"It is man that makes truth great and not truth that makes man great." (Confucius)

"It is not we who presuppose truth but it is truth that makes it at all possible for us to be able to be such that we presuppose anything at all. Truth is what makes presupposing possible." (Heidegger)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, "He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all."

Oswald Chambers, commenting on zealous evangelism, said, "We win arguments and lose people."

The British pastor and missionary Oswald Chambers wrote, "He deliberately laid down His life without any possibility of deliverance. There was no compulsion, it was a sacrifice made with a free mind; nor was there anything . . . impulsive about it, He laid down His life with a clear knowledge of what He was doing. Jesus understood what was coming, it was not a foreboding, but a certainty; not a catastrophe which might happen, but an ordained certainty in the decrees of God, and He knew it" (cited in Oswald Chambers: The Best from All His Books, vol. 2, Harry Verploegh, ed. [Nashville: Oliver Nelson, 1989], p. 270).