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On the Nature of Truth
“Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. And when these values of that which is real are co-ordinated in personality experience, the result is a high order of love conditioned by wisdom and qualified by loyalty.” — Paper 2:7.12
“Truth is always a revelation: autorevelation when it emerges as a result of the work of the indwelling Adjuster; epochal revelation when it is presented by the function of some other celestial agency, group, or personality.” — Paper 101:4.3
“Things are time conditioned, but truth is timeless. The more truth you know, the more truth you are, the more of the past you can understand and of the future you can comprehend.” — Paper 118:3.2
“Truth cannot be defined with words, only by living. Truth is always more than knowledge.” — Paper 132:3.2
“Reason is the proof of science, faith the proof of religion, logic the proof of philosophy, but revelation is validated only by human experience.” — Paper 101:2.8
On Truth and Beauty
“Truth, beauty, and goodness are correlated in the ministry of the Spirit, the grandeur of Paradise, the mercy of the Son, and the experience of the mortal of time.” — Paper 56:10.20
“Beauty is the recognition of the fitness of truth and the spiritual replication of the harmony of Paradise.” — Paper 56:10.9
“The discernment of supreme beauty is the discovery and integration of reality.” — Paper 2:7.8
“Goodness is the mental recognition of the relative values of the diverse levels of divine perfection.” — Paper 56:10.12
“Truth is the basis of science and philosophy, presenting the intellectual foundation of religion. Beauty sponsors art, music, and the meaningful rhythms of all human experience.” — Paper 56:10.10
On Living Truth
“But truth can never become man’s possession without the exercise of faith. This is true because man’s thoughts, wisdom, ethics, and ideals will never rise higher than his faith, his sublime hope.” — Paper 132:3.5
“Religious experience, being essentially spiritual, can never be fully understood by the material mind; hence the function of theology, the psychology of religion.” — Paper 196:3.28
“Truth is living; the Spirit of Truth is ever leading the children of light into new realms of spiritual reality and divine service.” — Paper 180:5.2
“Static truth is dead truth, and only dead truth can be held as a theory. Living truth is dynamic and can enjoy only an experiential existence in the human mind.” — Paper 180:5.2
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” — Paper 162:7.2
On Revelation and Discovery
“Revelation is evolutionary but always progressive. Down through the ages of a world’s history, the revelations of religion are ever-expanding and successively more enlightening.” — Paper 92:4.1
“The true child of universe insight looks for the living Spirit of Truth in every wise saying.” — Paper 180:5.4
“Science discovers the material world, religion evaluates it, and philosophy endeavors to interpret its meanings while co-ordinating the scientific material viewpoint with the religious spiritual concept.” — Paper 103:7.15
“Revelation teaches mortal man that, to start such a magnificent and intriguing adventure through space by means of the progression of time, he should begin by the organization of knowledge into idea-decisions.” — Paper 101:6.8
“One of the most important things in human living is to find out what Jesus believed, to discover his ideals, and to strive for the achievement of his exalted life purpose.” — Paper 196:1.3
Related Entities
Spirit of Truth
The spirit bestowed by Jesus that leads believers into living truth and spiritual reality.
Jesus of Nazareth
The living embodiment of truth, whose life demonstrated that truth must be lived, not merely known.
Universal Father
The First Source of all truth, in whom all facts exist and all reality originates.