45 Quotes About Relativism vs. Truth
- âWhen it comes to truth, the outcome affects not only individuals but nations and even civilizations. What starts looking like a small abstract issue ends with titanic, public consequences for all who love freedom and justice.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âAlthough someoneâs beliefs and assumptions may not be true and do not describe reality, they will still drive their behavior. So if someone doesnât believe in truth, count on him to lie. If someone says there are no objective facts, expect her to be careless with facts to further her own interests. If someone explains everything by referring to evolution and the âselfish gene,â be sure that at some point, he will be extremely selfish on behalf of the fitness of his own survival.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âOur challenge today is not to lament, protest, or simply talk about the crisis of truth in one of a hundred ways. Rather, it is to do something about it by becoming people of truth and learning to live free.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âFar from being a naive and reactionary notion, truth is one of the simplest, most precious gifts without which we would not be able to handle reality or negotiate life.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âWhen nothing can be judged except judgment itselfâ âjudgmentalismââthe barriers between the unthinkable, acceptable, and doable collapse entirely. And then, since life goes on and the sky doesnât fall, people draw the conclusion that the original concern was unfounded. Lighten up, the newly amoral say as they skip forward blithely, complicit in their own corruption.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âIf truth is truth, then differences make a difference â not just between truth and lies but between intimacy and alienation in relationships, between harmony and conflict in neighborhoods, between efficiency and incompetence in business, between reliability and fraud in science and journalism, between trust and suspicion in leadership, between freedom and tyranny in government, and even between life and death.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âWhile we all may have a sense of what is evil and what is good under the philosophy of cultural tolerance, evil and good can only be relative ideals. Without an objective truthâa set of universal moral valuesâgood and evil are defined by the individual, community, or society. Therefore we have no moral basis by which to judge another person, community, or nation for what they do or donât do.â Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell, The Beauty of Intolerance
- âRight up to the end of the nineteenth century, the most important course in an American studentâs college career was moral philosophy, or what we today call ethics.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âMuch of todayâs focus is on âprevention ethicsâ rather than on principled ethics. It is more concerned with ânot being caughtâ (or sued or exposed in the press) than with doing right.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âWhat is seen as important are issues related to corporations, schools, courts, governments, and the treatment of the environmentâ not the individualâs virtue and responsibility that underlie these secondary issues.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âThe current ethics is often taught with a shallow view of human nature and an even more superficial view of evil in human society.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âThe emphasis now is on surface, not depth; on possibilities, not equalities; on glamour, not convictions; on what can be altered endlessly; not achieved for good; and on what can be bought and won, not gained by education and formation.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âThe present preoccupation with ethics in elite intellectual centers has an element of absurdity because they have no moral content left to teach. The fruit of the Western universities in the last two hundred years has been to destroy the possibility of any moral knowledge on which to pursue moral formation.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âIf truth is contingent upon the society in which we liveâŠthere is nothing intuitive or universally or absolutely true about freedom from torture or freedom from slavery; our society just happens to have come up with these values over time.â Stephen McAndrew, Why It Doesnât Matter What YOU Believe If Itâs Not True
- âIf moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then the law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one.â Scott Klusendorf, The Case for Life
- âJust as iron filings are drawn to the strongest magnet, so minds weakened by a loss of truth are drawn to the most powerful positions.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âWhat happens when we succeed in cutting away truth-claims to expose the web of power games only to find we have less power than the players we face? If truth is dead, right and wrong are neither, and all that remains is the will to power, then the conclusion is simple: Might makes right. Logic is only a power conspiracy. Victory goes to the strong, and the weak go to the wall.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âJust as the Greeks entered Troy concealed in the hollow wooden statue of a horse, so post-modernism is providing the cover for all sorts of ideas and practices to enter American lifeâideas that on their own would have difficulty gaining entrance.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âShort of total isolation, the American society you live in today is going to influence how your children make moral choices in one way or another. Stop and think about it. What are the voices of society telling your children about the choices they are about to make? What is the central theme that todayâs culture emphasizes over and over again? If you were to reduce it to a single sentence, it might look like this: You have the right to choose for yourself what is right for you and what is wrong for youâand no one should judge that choice.â Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell, The Beauty of Intolerance
- âWhen nothing can be judged except judgment itselfâ âjudgmentalismââthe barriers between the unthinkable, acceptable, and doable collapse entirely.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âIf everything is endlessly open to question and change, then everything is permitted, nothing is forbidden, and literally nothing is unthinkable.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âApplying to the skeptics the skepticism they apply to others [pushes] them out toward the negative consequences of their own beliefs.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âWhile all beliefs appear consistent to those who believe them, they always have one of two problems. They are either constricting or contradictory. In the first case, the beliefs are more consistent but are incomplete in the sense that they are too small for the fullness of lifeâŠAnd in the second case, the beliefs are more comprehensive but are inconsistentâwhich in the worst cases makes them self-refuting- a problem Chesterton calls âthe suicide of thought.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âInevitably, moral choices based on our own moral compass will often be wrong choices. And wrong moral choices can result in consequences ranging from minor disappointments to major disasters emotionally, relationally, physically, and spiritually.â Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell, The Beauty of Intolerance
- âTruth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âIt is that truth, like meaning as a whole, is not for to us to create but for us to discover. Each of us may be small, our lives short, and our influence puny. But if truth is thereâobjective, absolute, independent of minds that know itâ then we may count on it.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âIn order to discover truth it is necessary to coldly dissect and examine all of our prejudices and inherent biases to ensure we receive unbiased answers. This takes effort. It is always easier to simply accept the ideas presented to us than to question the status quo.â Stephen McAndrew, Why It Doesnât Matter What YOU Believe If Itâs Not True
- âWhile we all may have a sense of what is evil and what is good under the philosophy of cultural tolerance, evil and good can only be relative ideals. Without an objective truthâa set of universal moral valuesâgood and evil are defined by the individual, community, or society. Therefore we have no moral basis by which to judge another person, community, or nation for what they do or donât do.â Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell, The Beauty of Intolerance
- âWe are all entitled to our own beliefs, but this doesnât mean each of us has our own truths. Our beliefs describe the way we think the world is. Truth describes the objective state of the world, regardless of how we take it to be. Beliefs can be relative, but truth cannot. So when we consider the nature of truthâthat it is an objective description of realityâit makes no sense to say that something is true for you and not for me.â Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell, The Beauty of Intolerance
- âWithout truth, a belief may be only speculation plus sincerity.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âWhile we all may have a sense of what is evil and what is good under the philosophy of cultural tolerance, evil and good can only be relative ideals. Without an objective truthâa set of universal moral valuesâgood and evil are defined by the individual, community, or society. Therefore we have no moral basis by which to judge another person, community, or nation for what they do or donât do.â Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell, The Beauty of Intolerance
- âIt is often said that to have a fulfilling life, three essentials are required: a clear sense of personal identity, a deep sense of faith and meaning, and a strong sense of purpose and mission.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âFor those who find themselves without faith in God and who conclude that the world they desire does not fit with the world they discover, life is fundamentally deaf to their aspirations.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âFor all the fragile precariousness of our human existence on our tiny earth in the vastness of space, we may throw the whole weight of our existence on God, including our truth-seeking desires, because he is wholly true.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âThose who put their faith in God do so for all sorts of good reasons, but the very best reason is that they are finally, utterly, and incontrovertibly convinced that the faith which they put their confidence in is true.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âAll truth is Godâs truth and is true everywhere, for everyone, under all conditions. Truth is true in the sense that it is objective and independent of the mind of any human knower. Being true, it cannot contradict itself.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âThe beauty of intolerance is its opposition to wrong and evil in the worldâin alignment with Godâs righteous and perfect standard of justice, equality, human rights, and caring for others. Intolerance of evil is not mean-spirited and condemnatory; it is actually the only way to be loving and caring.â Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell, The Beauty of Intolerance
- âWhat is more beautiful than Godâs intolerance expressed in his moral outrage toward the tragedies of poverty, racism, sexual abuse, slavery, AIDS, bigotry, and other such evils?â Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell, The Beauty of Intolerance
- âHuman beings are truth-seekers by nature, and truth persuades by the forces of its own reality.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âIt is impossible to experience love without being truthful, and it is impossible to discover truth without loving it.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âTruth is our best friend, and it is an inseparable part of what real love is. While cultural tolerance may disguise itself as caring, understanding, and loving, it lacks the moral authority of an authentic love that looks out for the best interest of others. That is another quality of authentic, real loveâit is always other-focused.â Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell, The Beauty of Intolerance
- âAs human beings, we are by nature truth-seekers; as fallen human beings, we are also by nature truth-twisters. And a proper account of truth in the human project must do justice to both.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âConforming our desires to the truth is harder in the short term but easier in the long. We give up our need for control and submit to truth outside us, which, if we were wrong about truth before, requires repentance rather than rationalization. We have to face up to reality rather than trying to fit reality into our schemes. But the long-term outcome is freedom becauseâŠtruth is freedom and we are engaging with reality at it truly is.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
- âWhat distinguishes Godâs unconditional acceptance from that of our culture is authentic love. His love is intended to make the security, happiness, and welfare of another as important as his own. It is other-focused, not performance-focused. God knows the real truth about usâthat we were created in his imageâand that truth allows him to separate the person from performance. God unconditionally values us for who we are without always approving of what we do because he separates the value of the person from the acts of the person.â Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell, The Beauty of Intolerance
- âThe Christian faith is not true because it works; it works because it is true. It is not true because we experience it; we experience itâdeeply and gloriouslyâbecause it is true. It is not simply âtrue for usâ; it is true for any who seek in order to find.â Os Guinness, Time For Truth: Living Free In A World of Lies, Hype, and Spin
Recommended resources related to the topic:
Is Morality Absolute or Relative? by Dr. Frank Turek DVD, Mp3 and Mp4
Right From Wrong by Josh McDowell Mp3
Counter Culture Christian: Is There Truth in Religion? (DVD) by Frank Turek
Deconstructing Liberal Tolerance: Relativism as Orthodoxy (Mp3) by Francis Beckwith
Defending Absolutes in a Relativistic World (Mp3) by Frank Turek
Is Morality Absolute or Relative? (Mp3), (Mp4), and (DVD) by Frank Turek
Luke Nix holds a bachelorâs degree in Computer Science and works as a Desktop Support Manager for a local precious metal exchange company in Oklahoma.
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