Truth, really?

Here are a few thoughts on truth which speak with sterling clarity about the nature, reality, and existence of truth.  In a culture that seems to embrace a no holds barred approach to interpreting reality and truth, these thoughts offer us a grander view of what it means to experience a life worth living.  Life to the full, as defined by Jesus, is found in an understanding of truth as it is in reality.  Jesus, in Himself, was truth and grace.  In Him is found the precision of absolute reality and the wonder of grace for all of us who do not measure up to the standard of truth found in God alone.

This is the thrilling romance of Orthodoxy (right belief).  People have fallen into a foolish habit of thinking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe.  There was never anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy.  It is sanity; and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad (with the passions of this world).  Orthodoxy is the equilibrium of a man behind madly rushing horses  (think Lone Ranger or Indiana Jones saving the day), seeming to stoop this way and that, yet in every attitude having the grace of statuary and the accuracy of arithmetic.  G.K. Chesterton with comments by Bruce Smith

This life’s dim Windows of the Soul, distorts the heavens from pole to pole, and leads you to believe a lie, when you see with, not thro’, the eye.  Blake

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.  Churchill

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.  T.S. Eliot

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.  Czeslaw Milosz

People will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.  Czeslaw Milosz

I am the way, the truth, and the life.  Jesus

I have come that you might have life…life to the full.  Jesus

Love and pursue truth,

Bruce Smith

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