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The truth of scripture is not fact: asked by a murderer where your mother is, you would not tell the factual truth. The truth that sets free and sanctifies is always coupled with love: 'Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour, and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour' (Zechariah 8:16-17). So a true judgment need not conform to the external reality to which it relates: see the good in all, for we are never so blind to the truth as when we see things as they seem, and 'a truth told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent' (Blake). Later lectures join it to 'I am the truth' and to seeing roses where there are none.

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John 8:32 | Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free
John 17:17 | Sanctify them by the truth
Zechariah 8:16-17 | Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor, and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor
John 7:24 | Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment
Blake wordings
Auguries of Innocence | A truth told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent
Own wordings
a true judgment need not conform to the external reality to which it relates
Never are we so blind to the truth as when we see things as they seem to be
Only pictures that idealize really depict the truth
The truth of the Bible is always coupled with love
It is never superior insight but rather, purblindness that reads into the greatness of another some littleness with which it happens to be familiar
He seeks not truth so much as support for his own point of view
If you can change your opinion of another, then what you now believe of him cannot be absolutely true, but relatively true
truth depends not upon fact but upon the intensity of imagining

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“Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor.”
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The truth of the Bible is always coupled with love.
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Never are we so blind to the truth as when we see things as they seem to be.
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He seeks not truth so much as support for his own point of view.
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“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
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Let the truth carry us heavenwards, expanding our conceptions, increasing our understanding until we know the “Truth” and are made “Free.”
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If a man known to you as a murderer broke into your home and asked the whereabouts of your mother, would you tell him where she was?
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“A truth told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
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He knows that a true judgment need not conform to the external reality to which it relates.
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speak every man truth with his neighbor
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When you meet someone, regardless of what the appearance would reveal, know the truth for that one and set him free.
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Every thing that I would call the good, which is a righteous judgment, will be the right judgement.
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“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
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I don’t care what the facts of life are; truth depends not upon fact but upon the intensity of imagining.
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I can take an illusion, and through the medium of an illusion I can relate myself to reality
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fact or reason thinks that a true judgement must conform to the external reality to which it relates
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Truth and fact oppose each other. Truth does not depend upon fact. Truth depends upon the intensity of your imagination.
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We never accept as true and as final anything unless it conforms to the ideal we desire to embody within our world
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To you, Truth is not confined by facts but by the intensity of your imagination.
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But that is a lie based on fact, but truth is based on the intensity of my imagination and then I will create it in my world.
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it is not superior insight but purblindness that reads into the greatness of men some littleness with which it chances to be familiar
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If you can change your opinion of another, then what you now believe of him cannot be absolutely true, but relatively true.
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The perfect man judges not after appearances; he judges righteously.
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truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon “facts.”
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you will boldly assert the supremacy of imagination and put all things in subjection to it
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