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Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.

Luke 12:41-44, KJV

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

John 1:17, KJV

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

John 14:16-17, KJV

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

John 16:12-13, KJV

But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things

Romans 2:2, KJV

Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

1 John 5:5-6, KJV

And now will I stand, and become firm in You, in my mould, Your truth;

Augustine, Confessions

And when they love a happy life, which is no other than joying in the truth, then also do they love the truth; which yet they would not love, were there not some notice of it in their memory.

Augustine, Confessions

Ask, and ye shall have; Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; And to him that knocks, shall it be opened. These be Your own Promises: and who need fear to be deceived, when the Truth promises?

Augustine, Confessions

Behold, in You, O Truth, I see that I ought not to be moved at my own praises, for my own sake, but for the good of my neighbor. And whether it be so with me, I know not. For herein I know less of myself than of You. I beseech now, O my God, discover to me myself also, that I may confess unto my brethren, who are to pray for me, wherein I find myself maimed. Let me examine myself again more diligently.

Augustine, Confessions

But let me be united in You, O Lord, with those and delight myself in You, with them that feed on Your truth, in the largeness of charity, and let us approach together unto the words of Your book, and seek in them for Your meaning, through the meaning of Your servant, by whose pen You have dispensed them.

Augustine, Confessions

Every where, O Truth, do You give audience to all who ask counsel of You, and at once answer all, though on manifold matters they ask Your counsel.

Augustine, Confessions

For behold, You love the truth, and he that does it, cometh to the light.

Augustine, Confessions

I will take my stand, where, as a child, my parents placed me, until the clear truth be found out.

Augustine, Confessions

In this diversity of the true opinions, let Truth herself produce concord. And our God have mercy upon us, that we may use the law lawfully, the end of the commandment, pure charity.

Augustine, Confessions

Nor was it above my soul, as oil is above water, nor yet as heaven above earth: but above to my soul, because It made me; and I below It, because I was made by It. He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows eternity. Love knows it. O Truth Who are Eternal! and Love Who are Truth! and Eternity Who are Love!

Augustine, Confessions

or being in gradation removed in time and place, made or undergo the beautiful variations of the Universe. These things they see, and rejoice, in the little degree they here may, in the light of Your truth.

Augustine, Confessions

that it within may consult the truth, which presides over itself, whether it be well done or no.

Augustine, Confessions

This is the happy life which all desire; this life which alone is happy, all desire; to joy in the truth all desire.

Augustine, Confessions

Truth, Artificer of the creature,

Augustine, Confessions

we are but led to the un changeable Truth; where we learn truly, while we stand and hear Him, and rejoice greatly because of the Bridegroom's voice, restoring us to Him, from Whom we are.

Augustine, Confessions

yea rather it speaks to all; but they only understand, who compare its voice received from without, with the truth within. For truth says unto me, "Neither heaven, nor earth, nor any other body is Your God." This, their very nature says to him that sees them: "They are a mass; a mass is less in a pare thereof than in the whole."

Augustine, Confessions

You are the Truth who presides over all, but I through my covetousness would not indeed forego You, but would with You possess a lie; as no man would in such wise speak falsely, as himself to be ignorant of the truth.

Augustine, Confessions

You contain all things in Your hand in Your Truth;

Augustine, Confessions

An eternal banquet laid in the privacy of "He is the Truth".

Rumi

If thou never hast gazed upon beauty in moments of sorrow, Thou canst with truth never boast that thou true beauty hast seen. If thou never hast gazed upon gladness in beauteous features, Thou canst with truth never boast that thou true gladness hast seen

Schiller, The Fairest Apparition

If thou art wise, incline towards the essential truth, for that remains, while the things that are external pass away.

Saadi, Bustan

On the Day of Judgment thou wilt see in. Paradise him who sought truth and rejected vain pretension.

Saadi, Bustan

In the opinion of the prudent he is no hero that can dare to combat a furious elephant; but that man is in truth a hero who, when provoked to anger, will not speak intemperately.

Saadi, Gulistan

There is scarce truth enough alive to make societies secure; but security enough to make fellowships accurst much upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 3, Scene 2