Quotes of the Day for February 10, 2026 – Thoughts on lies, half-truths, and Truth
- Michael Haldas
- 17 hours ago
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“Perhaps a particularly acute aspect of words is their ability to distort and misrepresent. And so, from the earliest times, there has been a prohibition against lying. The importance of speaking the truth is emphasized repeatedly in the epistles of the New Testament, even though it might easily seem to be a minor matter of morality. In our culture, words cascade at a never-ending pace, many of them disincarnate without reference to anything true or real. Arguments abound. Words are spoken like weapons, used for effect and not for meaning. It is significant that Christ describes the devil as the “father of lies.” In Genesis, he speaks the world’s first lie: “God has not said…” He is the anti-logos.” (Father Stephen Freeman)
“If lies and delusions run amok in the world, as they do now in places, they may be able to temporarily obscure the truth of Christ in places. Just as the sun shines a radiant, warm, and life-giving light on a gloomy day, although it can’t be seen behind the clouds, so the truth of Christ always works in the world, though in the struggle with the darkness of doubts, delusions, and lies. Natural knowledge itself, when properly formulated, should lead a man to a clear and complete awareness of Christ’s truth, and then, having revealed all its actual power and having conquered all falsehood, it will accomplish the salvation of the human mind.” (St. John of Riga)
“The serpent deceived them with a partial truth. He told them that in trespassing the forbidden section of the Garden they would become like God. However, he did not tell them that to become like God they would have to die with God. Such a total self-sacrifice would have been too much for them in their childlike state, so we can see how mocking and cruel his words were. The enemy was jealous and insanely malicious, knowing that the dying Son was more lofty than his own angelic resplendence and power...If we lie, we make ourselves a slave to the devil, the father of lies. This is why honesty and integrity are so spiritually important to our lives…If we listen to lies, accept them or transmit them, we give up godly freedom and enslave ourselves to the father of lies.” (Timothy G. Patitsas, Fr. Ted Bobosh)
“The world, in general, tends to hate truth. How do we, as Christians, know this? When Pilate asked Christ what is truth, Christ was silent because Pilate was asking the wrong question. The question should have been who is truth? Truth was standing before him. Truth came to us in the flesh and what did we do to truth? We crucified Him. That tendency to crucify truth seems to still be alive and well.” (Sacramental Living Ministries)
“Two fundamental truths were incarnate in the Person of Christ: the truth of God and the truth of man. Without Christ, the truth of God would remain foreign to man’s mind and distant from his emotions. God would be an entity utterly removed from man’s experience; the only grounds for extolling Him would be His stark otherness, His sheer separation from our meager, sinful state Without Christ, the truth of man would likewise be obscured. For man would see himself only as a creation of dust, who, by forgetting the eternal status of his soul, would fail to realize his everlasting destiny.” (Matthew the Poor)
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