 TRUTH: THE MOST PRECIOUS COMMODITY
Solomon advises us to "Buy the truth and sell it not" (Proverbs 23:23). Many modern Americans put a very low value on truth. In our news media and politics we find many folks who see truth as what they proclaim it to be. To bend or shade the facts means little to such folks.
In religion and academia there are many who question whether we can discover the real essence of life, of morals, ethics and things pertaining to God and eternity.
Students are confronted with teachers who argue that truth is only that which works (utilitarianism), or that it is relative or that it is situational or that it is culturally defined. I recently came across the following quotations about Truth. They were good in days past and pertinent for today.
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"Truth is the most powerful thing in the world..." (Shaftsbruy).
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"Truth is the gravitation principle of the universe, by which it is supported, and in which it inheres" (W. M. Evarts).
"Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty” (Ms. de Stael).
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"There are three parts in truth: first the inquiry, which is the wooing of it; secondly, the knowledge of it, which is the presence of it; and thirdly, the belief, which is the enjoyment of it" (Bacon).
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"Christianity is not a drug which suits some complaints and not other. It is either sheer illusion of else it is the truth. But if it is the truth, if the universe happens to be constituted in this way, the question is not whether the God of Christianity suits us, but whether we suit Him?" (Wm. Temple).
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"Some modern zealots appear to have no better knowledge of truth, nor better manner of judging it, than by counting noses" (Swift).
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"Of all duties; the love of truth, with faith and constancy in it, ranks first and highest. To love God and to love truth is one and the same" (Silvio Pellico).
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"Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience" (Azel Backus).
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"Peace if possible, but truth at any rate" (Martin Luther).
"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it is" (Winston Churchill).
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"Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty" (Phillips Brooks).
"While you live, tell the truth and shame the devil" (Shakespeare).
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"If the world goes against the truth, then Athanasius goes against the world" (Athanasius).
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God's "word is truth" (Jesus, John 17:17).
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