Josh McDowell Quotes

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.

Truth is independent of facts always.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.

It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

The truth is, those who diligently seek to learn of Christ eventually will come to know Him. They will personally receive a divine portrait of the Master, although it most often comes in the form of a puzzle - one piece at a time.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.