Telling the Truth
November 3.
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
EPHESIANS 4, verse 25.
In conversation be sincere;
Keep conscience as the noontide clear;
Think how All-seeing God thy ways
And all thy secret thoughts surveys.
THOMAS KEN.
The essence of lying is in deception,
not in words; a lie may be told by silence,
by equivocation, by the accent on a
syllable, by a glance of the eye attaching a
peculiar significance to a sentence;
and all these kinds of lies are worse and
baser by many degrees than a lie plainly
worded; so that no form of blinded conscience
is so far sunk as that which comforts itself
for having deceived because the deception
was by gesture or silence,
instead of utterance.
JOHN RUSKIN.
He that is habituated to deceptions and
artificialities in trifles, will try in vain to be
true in matters of importance; for truth is
a thing of habit rather than of will. You
cannot in any given case by any sudden
and single effort will to be true, if the
habit of your life has been insincerity.
F. W. ROBERTSON.
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
EPHESIANS 4, verse 25.
In conversation be sincere;
Keep conscience as the noontide clear;
Think how All-seeing God thy ways
And all thy secret thoughts surveys.
THOMAS KEN.
The essence of lying is in deception,
not in words; a lie may be told by silence,
by equivocation, by the accent on a
syllable, by a glance of the eye attaching a
peculiar significance to a sentence;
and all these kinds of lies are worse and
baser by many degrees than a lie plainly
worded; so that no form of blinded conscience
is so far sunk as that which comforts itself
for having deceived because the deception
was by gesture or silence,
instead of utterance.
JOHN RUSKIN.
He that is habituated to deceptions and
artificialities in trifles, will try in vain to be
true in matters of importance; for truth is
a thing of habit rather than of will. You
cannot in any given case by any sudden
and single effort will to be true, if the
habit of your life has been insincerity.
F. W. ROBERTSON.
