Spiritual Truth Quotes

For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.

Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

There is no religion higher than Truth.

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Finally, I learned that we shouldn’t seek answers as much as we should seek God.

We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

The Scriptures are the truth from God.

Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion.

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

We should no more tolerate false doctrine that we would tolerate sin.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

God's Word is its own best argument.

Truth is the pearl without price. One cannot obtain truth by buying it-all you can do is to strive for spiritual truth and when one is ready, it will be given freely. Nor should spiritual truth be sold, lest the seller be injured spiritually. You lose any spiritual contact the moment you commercialize it. Those who have the truth would not be packaging and selling it, so anyone who is selling it, really does not possess it.

It is Spiritually impossible to hide and see at the same time.