Sentences with phrase «less than the truth»

It would be less than the truth, however, if the author's interest in writing the book were represented as merely the desire to explain ideologies.

Faith should not be a substitute for careful thought and patient inquiry, for in the long run nothing less than truth deserves man's final allegiance.

Don't swear in God's name to tell the truth and then tell less than the truth.»

Yes, Omalu found CTE in Webster's brain while personally funded his quest, but the film's lack of placing Omalu on the shoulders of those who came before him, leave one feeling that the film is telling less than the truth.

And of course this is nothing less than the truth.

Whether that's more or less than the truth may be beside the point.

I thanked Roy, he was a loyal friend, and never told less than the truth.

Not exact matches

Beijing and the World Bank officially claim China's government debt remains very manageable, at less than 20 % of GDP — far below levels in the industrial world — but the truth is, local governments are piling on new debt at a staggering pace.

Though much of the success of craft breweries (which are technically defined as those that make less than 6 million barrels per year) and microbreweries (which make less than 15,000 barrels) can be credited to shifts in public taste, those in the industry say they've learned a few truths along the way that have aided in their success.

But the truth is that many of those drivers are making less than $ 10 an hour, according to NPR.

We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.

Truth be told I understand EOS even less now than when I purchased it initially.

The shocking truth is that less than 10 % of all financial advisors in the United States follow the fiduciary standard — which legally requires financial advisors to put your interests ahead of their own.

If you want to really search for the truth; you will find that the percentage of priests that abuse children is smaller than you'd think (try less than 1 % worldwide; google it and check multiple sources).

What was called the Law of Diminishing Returns indicated that the work devoted to satisfying wants must become progressively less effective; and Malthus announced the depressing but undeniable truth that, if left to themselves, the number of those seeking satisfactions for their wants must increase faster than the supply of those satisfactions.

The atheist who claims to come from a «faith» background is extremely confused and more to be pitied than admired.Had the supposed «believer» continued in the «faith» they claim to have forsaken, they would ultimately have appeared before God and been rejected.These were deceived, they never met God, they never knew God and they never understood God.They are devoid of the Truth and twice lost.There is hope while they still breathe Gods gift of life that they might someday meet and be reconciled to God, but their lying nature makes salvation less likely.Debate with them is an exercise in futility.God bless

Who says your «truth» is any less true than the writer's?

At first glance it might seem appealing to argue that the mystery of God outstrips our capacity to delineate it, that every theology in its own way must fall so short of the truth that no position can, however seriously maintained, be markedly any more or less true than any other.

The avowal of a Christian approach need not mean that the Christian theologian is less committed to truth and objectivity than anyone else.

Thus the «incarnational» counter to contemporary Gnosticism and its ideology of «you are what you say you are» (irrespective, for example, of biology) will be less an argument than a demonstration: living in concord with the moral truths built into the world and into us, which lead to beatitude or happiness.

But there is perhaps this truth behind it: that those who brood much on the remote past or future, or stare long at the night sky, are less likely than others to be ardent or orthodox partisans.»

As usual, God will even use the words of those who are leading less than exemplary lives to reveal something of the truth to the rest of us.

But Richard A. Shenk points out in his new book, The Virgin Birth of Christ: The Rich Meaning of a Biblical Truth, that in Evangelical churches, the why of the virgin birth receives less attention than the fact of it.

Speaking of a «true myth» may catch attention, but it is also misleading for most people, suggesting that the truth in the myth is something less than really true.

«Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.»

In this sphere, which embraces everything else and can not itself be again integrated into a higher order, truth can less than elsewhere be that merely subjective truth of a solipsistic individualism.

My liberal colleagues were even less interested in puzzling out the continuity of truth in classical doctrine than were hard - nosed biblicists.

[derivatives with less than the fullness of Truth]

The truth is nothing less than reality itself.

The German theological world has been far less shaken than the English - speaking world by the changes in academic culture of the last decades: feminism, the hermeneutics of suspicion, the dismissal of truth - claims as disguised assertions of power.

How can the Church claim to speak for eternally valid truth unless it has some means to correct the errors that its less - than - perfect members inevitably introduce into its life from time to time?

«From the stuff of the stars to the stuff of ourselves, From gyrating electrons to the genes in our cells, The truth is a beauty and should gain recognition, It's more mind than machine, less cog than cognition.»

In truth, there are times when the film feels less like an addition to the franchise than it does a remake of the original movie.

Genuine tolerance, it turns out, requires the assertion of one's own convictions about the truth no less than the acknowledgement of other points of view.

Consider that he plainly states, «In sober truth, how can one love a fetus, by all evidence with less actual intelligence than a cat, as one loves oneself?

Real Christians Hate Religion... Real Christians Hate Hypocrites... Real Christians should be more like Christ... How could you claim to be a Christian if you don't even know your Christ... The reason why doomed people would never understand Christ is because they never tried to search for the Truth... They only listen to such rubbish things rather than the Truth... Read and do more and Talk less... It doesn't take a genius to know that Someone created you rather than you coming to life with just atoms randomly hitting each other... If you're really smart, think about it... Stop the non-sense talk about God and Science and find it out for yourself...

Their fidelity to the faith and their acceptance of the truths of the faith are based less on obedience to their pastors than on understanding and conviction.

... the most important social task of Christians is to be nothing less than a community capable of forming people with virtues sufficient to witness to God's truth in the world.

Is an institution that says Jesus Christ is the truth less free than an institution that denies, implicitly or explicitly, that any such absolute truth can be known?

What this tells us is that we are less interested in truth than consequences.

How far he can move in these directions, as in exploiting others to one's own gain, driving a shrewd deal or pursuing an advantage, stretching the truth, «having a little affair,» or drinking in moderation, depends for most persons less on the will of God or the revelation of God in Jesus Christ than on what is and what is not done in one's community.

We know less than the full truth; we see less than the whole of reality.

The reply given by the Johannine Jesus appears at first to confirm this by saying, «If a man has faith in me, even though he die, he shall come to life», but then proceeds to add quite a new interpretation of the resurrection power of Christ in the words, «and no one who is alive and has faith shall ever die».13 C. H. Dodd concludes that «the «resurrection» of which Jesus has spoken is something which may take place before bodily death, and has for its result the possession of eternal life here and now... The evangelist agrees with popular Christianity that the believer will enter into eternal life at the general resurrection, but for him this is a truth of less importance than the fact that the believer already enjoys eternal life and the former is a consequence of the latter.»

The German universities expressed less opposition to the growth of Nazism in the 1930's than did the churches and labor unions; their failure at this point has been attributed in large part to their neutral pursuit of truth without concern for the life of the nation.14 By contrast, an example of intellectual responsibility occurred a few years ago when the University of Chicago was building a new cancer research hospital.

But this difference, which may be less real and important than I think, does not obscure my appreciation of the truth and brilliance of Dr. Morrison's discussion of the concreteness of revelation and of its inseparable connection with the community.

Christian faith is so much faith and so little sight that its adherents are always seeking for some demonstration which will prove to themselves and others that it is true, though the demonstration is bound to be somewhat beside the point — like most miracles — proving not truth but utility, and exhibiting a power which may be that of God, but may also be that of faith itself, or of spiritual forces somewhat less than divine.

You have no more or less the corner market on truth than those who incorporate faith into their system of belief.

human in hindu atheism, filthy self center ism are not less than hindu crazy dogs, unless and until they follow truth absolute in life, expect nothing but human acting like hindu, crazy dogs.

Hence, faith in revelation's word about the ultimately trustworthy character of reality is no less rational than is the trust in truth, goodness, and beauty that makes all academic pursuits possible.

What we have to ask is whether the New Testament narratives are affected by mythology less in their objective aspect than in our subjective way of apprehending and describing religious truth.