Max Lucado Quotes

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

I do not make stories up, full stop.

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

The best stories come out of the truth.

Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.

Everything I say is true.

I try to tell the truth.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened.

When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.

True information does good.

At the end of the day, I believe truth is stronger than any lie that's out there.

Swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath. But let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay.

Stick to the truth, avoid exaggeration.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

The truth never wears out.