Truth

Truth. What is it? Does it have value? Should we pursue it as the greatest prize, no matter what discomfort it may bring?

◌ "Buy the truth and sell it not" [Psalm 91:4].

◌ "Truth makes the devil blush" [Thomas Fuller}.

◌ "What governs [people] is fear of truth" [Henri Frederic Amiel].

◌ "Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it is" [Sir Winston Churchill].

◌ Emet (transliterated from Hebrew, truth). Truth is G-d's own seal. The three-letter word constitutes the first, middle, and last letters of the alephbet.
Conversely, sheqer (transliterated from Hebrew, lie) consists of three letters huddled in an unsuitable order, shivering like a maleficent milquetoast near the end of the alephbet, not quite there, unable to make a stand.

◌ "Shall error in the round of time
Still father truth?" [Alfred Lord Tennyson].

◌ "Yeshua said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me'" [John 14:6].

◌ "Feelings may come and go but truth remains forever" [John Miles].

◌ "All mentally healthy individuals submit themselves to the demands of their own conscience. Not so the evil, however. In the conflict between their guilt and their will, it is the guilt that must go and the will that must win" [M. Scott Peck in People of the Lie].

◌ "As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice." "It is not truth that matters, but victory." "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." ~~ Adolph Hitler

◌ "Although 'white lie integrity' may be normative, it is not spiritually healthy. . . . It subtly expands and leads us . . . into a kind of uncritical acceptance of all kinds of dishonesty" [J. Keith Miller].

◌ It took me twenty-one years to study truthfulness: seven years to learn what truth is, seven years to drive out falsehood, and seven years to acquire truth as my own personal treasure" [Rabbi Pinchas].

And finally, for those in the Northwestern United States:
◌ I am a part of the fellowship of the unashamed" [Bob Moorehead; senior pastor; radio minister; from a book, A Life of Integrity].