Truth Changes Everything Quotes

“The fullest life is not one that ignores eternity but one that lives in light of it.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything

“Truth without relationship leads to arrogance. Relationship without Truth leads to indifference. God's Truth, on the other hand, is personal, caring, and focused on flourishing.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything

“Live artistically. God is an artist. We bear God's image when we paint on a picture but also when we stretch the frame of our lives to include those on the margins. We bear God's image when we hear a symphony rise to its coda but also when we witness others rising to their potential. We bear God's image when we admire a stunning cathedral but also when we invite others to worship in spirit and in truth. We bear God's image when we stand in awe of mighty waves crashing onto the rocks or marvel at a lightning storm but also when we celebrate the triumphs of our fellow image bearers. The art of living is a high form of beauty.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything

“[A] biblical Christian worldview doesn't hide from pain. Rather, it memorializes it. Truth emerges in the pain, not despite it.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything

“Art is the expression of human creativity through which our souls are drawn into a profound understanding of beauty.... Most people do not think of themselves as artists, but beauty belongs to each of us. It may lift us up or tear us down, but it always changes us.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything

“The Late Middle Ages were a time of ignorance, superstition, and poverty. Drab hovels lined stinking streets. Life was barely worth living. Or so we are told. Suffering was indeed widespread in the Late Middle Ages, but to Christian thinkers and activists, suffering did not define their age. Rather, they were guided by the belief that humans possess souls and bear God's image. Life in their world gathered its meaning from the eternal. The typical twenty-first century person seeks understanding by gazing in a mirror. Typical fourteenth-century people discovered it by looking up.... When people in the Late Middle Ages gazed at the heavens, they didn't see a cold vacuum. Beauty, they believed, fills us with wonder and turns our hearts to God.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything

“Every moment of every day we live in a world-defining conflict. Contrary to what many think, this is not a battle between the religious and the nonreligious, Democrats and Republicans, progressives and conservatives, or blue states and red states. Rather, it is a struggle between two competing views of truth. One says that Truth (capital T) can be known objectively through reason and revelation.... Truth exists always, everywhere, even when we aren't paying attention or are deceiving ourselves. The other says that Truth cannot be known; all we have are 'truths' (lower case) that are stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our experiences. The first view says that Truth exists independently of our ability to perceive it. The second view says truths are socially constructed. These two viewpoints, Truth versus truths, vie for first place in forming our answer to the question, 'how do we find meaning in a fleeting life?' From at least the time of the ancient Hebrews, people have believed that Truth exists and can be discovered. Now the balance has tipped in the other direction, with more than half of Americans of all ages claiming that truths are up to an individual. This belief holds across all identifiable social and political groups. Even among churchgoing, self-identified Christians, the percentage who believe that Truth can be known has shrunk to around 50 percent. You and I live in a world where we cannot go a single day without hearing that truths are based on how we see things rather than on what exists to be seen. Truth is not 'out there' to be found; it is 'here' to be narrated. A biblical worldview, one based on the Bible, and the writings of Christian thinkers throughout history, has rested firmly on the idea that Truth can be known. It says that Truth isn't constructed by our experiences and feelings, even though our deepest encounters with reality may indeed fill our sense and change our hearts. Rather, a biblical worldview says that Truth exists and that it is not merely a set of logical propositions or mathematical formulas. it is a person. It is Jesus.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything

“Liberty: Freedom from Undue Restraint In America, the founders believed that the heart of liberty was not freedom to do anything we want but freedom to do as we ought. This was a common understanding of the time, as seen in the writings of Edmund Burke (1729–97), a British statesman who late in his life witnessed the bloody French Revolution. He wrote, “But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”3 John Adams, America’s second president, wrote to the Massachusetts Militia in 1798, “Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis

“Yet dangers still face us. Colossians 2:8 warns, “See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit.” We must be alert to erroneous views.13 In a world of counterfeits, a fully formed education offers wisdom to discern what is genuine.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis

“We don’t arrive at them by merely submitting to biological imperatives such as survival and reproduction. Chesterton says, “Charity means pardoning what is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis

“Any good education will inform students about virtues such as justice and moderation. A biblical education goes beyond this to root knowledge in faith, hope, and charity, which G. K. Chesterton calls “unreasonable” virtues, because they are of divine origin.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis

“Learning is more than just gathering facts. True learners grow in their ability to dialogue, reason, and point others to the Truth. Learning is a way of loving our neighbor.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis

“Against the naturalistic worldview, a biblical perspective maintains that what makes us valuable as humans rests in the personal nature of God, not in the self. God’s reality was such a fact of life to ancient Hebrews that the term used in the Bible as the personal name of God—YHWH, often transliterated as Jehovah—is translated as “I am.” In ancient Hebrew, one literally could not say “I am” because that was God’s name. Making oneself the center of reality was a linguistic impossibility, according to Jewish thought; our existence is contingent on God’s existence.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis

“Today we know a great deal about bodily chemistry and the control of physical diseases; but we know very little about why people hate, why they cannot love, why they suffer anxiety and guilt, and why they destroy each other.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis

“The conversion of many people to Christianity doesn’t prove that Christianity is true. It does, however, illustrate its Truth. Jesus said, “If I am not doing my Father’s works, don’t believe me. But if I am doing them and you don’t believe me, believe the works” (John 10:37–38 CSB). The way of Jesus is not true because it works; it works because it is true. The world-changing actions of history’s Jesus followers are what this book is about. How should we begin to tell their stories? Let’s start with what is most basic: how the belief that Jesus is the Truth changed forever our understanding of the value of human life.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis

“This is a profound claim. The ancient philosophers longed for a meaningful life. They believed they could discover life’s purpose by finding the answers to three questions: “What is good?” “What is true?” and “What is beautiful?” Educated people of Jesus’s day would have been familiar with Greek philosophy. I wonder if Jesus may have been addressing their mindset when he proclaimed, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). “I am,” he seems to be saying, “the answer to the philosophers’ quest.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis

“Advocates of the truths viewpoint ignore this basic premise. They say that words are not tied to reality while sneakily using words to create perceptions they then treat as real. This can lead to deadly word games. Every act of cruelty and violence against people begins with word games.4 In Rwanda, Hutu leaders demonized Tutsis as “cockroaches” before calling for their extermination. Hundreds of thousands died. Nazis called Jews “vermin” to justify the Holocaust. Today, pro-abortion advocates refer to unborn babies as “products of conception” to minimize their value as human persons. “When words lose their meaning people lose their lives,” warned my late friend Professor Michael Bauman.5”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis

“get their way? When asked how people from different countries espousing different beliefs came to agree on a list of human rights, the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain famously quipped, “Yes, we agree about the rights, but on condition that no one asks us why.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis

“As Tolkien put it, “There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit waiting for some final and desperate danger to make it grow.”14”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis

“you an overwhelming urge to sleep” (CSB). Modern humanity isn’t just confused; it is clumsy about its purpose and drowsy about its promise.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis

“Truth is something worth having well-formed convictions about. Much is at stake. Historians Will and Ariel Durant wrote that “a great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis

“This is what most people, even Jesus followers, believe about truth. The “no-judgment-allowed” mindset is growing in popularity among Christians. A study jointly conducted by Summit Ministries and the Barna Group found that self-identified Christian churchgoers under age forty-five were four times as likely as older generations to agree that “if your belief offends someone or hurts their feelings, it is wrong.”2 Just 6 percent of young adults agreed that “moral truth is absolute.”
― Jeff Myers, Truth Changes Everything (Perspectives: A Summit Ministries Series): How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis