Almost two centuries ago Daniel Webster wrote, “There is nothing as powerful as truth and often nothing as strange.”
In the intervening years, very little has changed — truth is still powerful and in our culture truth is still strange, and undoubtedly increasingly so. What matters to most individuals now is not truth, but “my truth.” Truth is now apparently relative, arbitrary, and mutable.
Not so, says Thomas Watson in a reminder of the character and power of truth:
Truth is either the blessed Word of God which is called the Word of truth, or those doctrines which are deduced from the Word, and agree with it as the dial with the sun or the transcript with the original;…
Truth may be opposed but never quite deposed.…
Truth is the seed of the new birth…Truth sanctifies…Truth is the seal that leaves the print of its own holiness upon us…Truth makes us free…Truth is comforting…Truth is an antidote against error…Truth is basis fidei, the ground of our faith…Truth is the best flower in the church’s crown…Truth is insigne honoris, an ensign of honor.…
If truth be gone, we may write this epitaph on England’s tombstone: “The glory is departed.”
Words of Grace 