To strengthen another man’s faith, you must exhibit strength in your own   Faith is confidence in what one hopes for and assurance about what one cannot see. A faithful man rests his hope in the God he believes to be sovereign over all that is visible and invisible. But a man without faith will place his hope in human hands because it is only the things of this World that he can see.   When the World has sufficiently failed the faithless man such that he begins to doubt the u

The only man who is not a hypocrite is the one who believes in nothing   Hypocrisy is behavior that does not conform with claimed belief. So, a man who espouses trust, faith, and confidence in what he asserts to be true, but does not consistently live up to that claim is guilty of hypocrisy.   I am that man.   In fact, all who recognize truth are as well because in our fallen state no man is capable of perfectly conforming his behavior to his beliefs. If we were, we would hav

If you believe it, you should be willing to say it, but if you say it, you must be able to explain it   Truth is transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality and belief is trust, faith, and confidence in what is true.   With a pure and softened heart, a man will look for and accept truth throughout his life. He knows sometimes it will be hard to accept because truth often runs against the grain of what he wants it to be and what the World claims it to be.   He also knows tha

Whatever stands between man and God is his true master   Worship is an expression of reverence and adoration. For those who believe in a higher power, that should be the object of his worship, his God. But Godly worship brooks no compromise with things of the World because a man cannot serve two masters.   Thus, a man may proclaim God as his master while continuing to revere and adore a thing of the World, the most common one being money. While he may honestly think he believ

The man who thinks he is right but is afraid that he is wrong looks for distractions   Because God created us in His image, we have the power of reason which allows us to decide for ourselves what we believe to be true.   But we are only in God’s image, we are not God. Thus, the conclusions we draw about what is right are subject to human error. We can think something is right when it is in fact wrong. And it is the fallen nature of man to think he is right—to continue to rel

If a man cannot explain his belief system without invoking politics, then politics are his belief system   A man’s beliefs define where he stands. They are the resolute answers to the questions he has pondered throughout his life about the universe and his place in it.   Some men find their beliefs in an immutable source outside of the influence of man. For such men, it does not matter how many other men believe likewise. For them, truth is self-evident and not subject to ple

It is a man’s actions that reveal his beliefs A man with an impure heart is quick to pronounce his beliefs and denounce the beliefs of others because his transitory emotions rather than foundational principles rule over him. As a result, he speaks impulsively without thought to the price he must pay for what he has said. In contrast, a man with a pure heart speaks carefully because there is integrity between his beliefs and what he says and does. Because he is subject to prin

THE PURE HEART REGULATES ITSELF

VISION REQUIRES PURITY OF HEART

TRUTH WITHOUT LOVE REPELS, BUT LOVE WITHOUT TRUTH INDULGES

IT IS A STRANGE KIND OF LOVE THAT LEAVES A MAN IN A LIE FOR FEAR THAT THE TRUTH WILL MAKE HIM UNHAPPY

TRUTH IS HARD TO TELL BECAUSE IT IS HARD TO HEAR

ONLY A SOFT HEART CAN ACCEPT TRUTH

TRUTH IS UNDEMOCRATIC

TRUTH IS A TRANSCENDENT FUNDAMENTAL OR SPIRITUAL REALITY

EVENTUALLY TRUTH CUTS THROUGH THE FOG

THERE IS AN ANSWER TO EVERY QUESTION OF MAN--THOUGH NOT IN THIS WORLD

A MAN MUST UNDERSTAND WHERE HE STANDS