Quotes & Sayings About Truth Set You Free

Only the Truth can set you free. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want ... Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute. — Nick Hornby

And the truth shall set you free," the Pillar muses. "Free enough to kill one another." "Stop — Cameron Jace

So, let me get this straight
You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is a 'sin'? Last time I checked, when you lie you are sinning. Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men. I could tell you a lie in order to placate you, but isn't the truth supposed to set me free? I choose truth over lies any day of the week. — Cristina Marrero

The world was full of people who could not get over things. There was no closure and there was no peace. The truth did not set you free. But you could get through things. That's what Bosch would tell him. You could head toward the light and climb and dig and fight your way out of the hole. — Michael Connelly

I know the truth, and I will tell you now: He was admired, loved, cheered, honored, respected. In life as well as in death. A great man, he is. A great man, he was. A great man he will be. He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave. And I knew, as Denny sped me toward the doctor who would fix me, that if I had already accomplished what I set out to accomplish here on earth, if I had already learned what I was meant to learn, I would have left the curb one second later than I had, and I would have been killed instantly by that car. But I was not killed. Because I was not finished. I still had work to do. — Garth Stein

The truth will set you free - but first it may thoroughly irritate you. — Susan Scott

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free. — Kendall Ryan

MUSIC IS THE ULTIMATE POWER
LOVE IS SIMPLY THE MESSAGE
AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE !!! — Prince

Creation takes place in bottlenecks ... A creator who isn't grabbed around the throat by a set of impossibilities is no creator. A creator's someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities ... it's by banging your head on the wall that you find a way through. You have to work on the wall, because without a set of impossibilities, you won't have the line of flight, the exit that is creation, the power of falsity that is truth. Your writing has to be liquid or gaseous simply because normal perception and opinion are solid, geometric ... You have to open up words, break things open, to free earth's vectors. — Gilles Deleuze

There is an ancient saying,' noted Ironflanks, 'originating, I believe, from you fastbloods. The truth will set you free.'
'No, old steamer,' said the commodore. 'In my experience, the truth will get you sent to the bottom of the ocean with an anchor chain wrapped around your legs to buy your silence. But it's the truth I need, all the same. — Stephen Hunt

Sometimes the truth doesn't set you free, Jules. Sometimes it cages you. — Gwenda Bond

REFLECTIONS OF TRUTH

Where you find Truth
Is where you find your reflection
And where you find your reflection
Is where you find love
And where you find love
Is where you find light
And where you find light
Is where you find faith
And where you find faith
Is where you find purpose
And where you find purpose
Is where you find happiness
And where you find happiness
Is where you find Truth
And when you find Truth
Truth will set you free. — Suzy Kassem

There is the devil at the door. I'm nearly going under, can't help but wonder who am I working for? No one's more enslaved now then the ones who falsely feel they are free. I've come to terms with the fact that nothing is what it seems. This life is an illusion. And everything you thought you knew isn't what it seems. Only truth will set you free. This new world has begun. — Tinashe

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful. — Ally Carter

Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth. — Byron Katie

If you fall, the truth will set you free. And when your heart can see just one thing in this life, we'll set out on the journey. — Gerry Rafferty

I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit. — Melina Marchetta

The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up. There's no error. Only time there's an error is when man miscalculates his own problems or his own equations. — RZA

You need to challenge your fear of life becoming unreasonable - because it is already unreasonable. In truth, your life has never been reasonable, it's just that you keep hoping tomorrow will be different and that you will find a way to bring more control into your world. Recognize that life will always be full of challenges and crisis. The wise way is not to attempt to find one path that promises you will never have to endure the pain of loss and illness, but instead to learn how to endure and transcend when unreasonable events come your way. Learning to defy gravity in your world - to think, perceive, and act at the mystical level of consciousness - is the greatest gift you can give yourself, because it is the gift of truth. And as we are bound to learn again and again in this life, the truth does indeed set us free. — Caroline Myss

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies — Jodi Picoult

Because the amazing fact is that truth alone will not set you free. Truthfulness will set you free. — Ken Wilber

think maybe I only know one thing in this world. One thing for sure. And that is that the truth does not set you free. Not like I have heard it said and not like I have said it myself the countless times I sat in small rooms and jail cells and urged ragged men to confess their sins to me. I lied to them, tricked them. The truth does not salvage you or make you whole again. It does not allow you to rise above the burden of lies and secrets and wounds to the heart. The truths I have learned hold me down like chains in a dark room, an underworld of ghosts and victims that slither around me like snakes. It is a place where the truth is not something to look at or behold. It is the place where evil waits. Where it blows its breath, every breath, into your mouth and nose until you cannot escape from it. — Michael Connelly

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name... — William Paul Young

Truth will heart you and set u free . — Lexis Smigz

They say the truth can set you free, but sometimes it can really depress the hell out of you. — Fannie Flagg

... it's not the truth about others that will set you free, but the truth about yourself. — Louise Penny

After that day, I discovered one indelible truth. I discovered that love wasn't everything that mattered in life. It was an emotion that not many had the luxury of feeling without any pain attached to it. Many say that love will set you free, but I disagree. Love is a cage, a very painful one; its gilded bars made with yearning, heartache, and unfulfilled dreams. And the moment I realized that love wasn't necessary to one's survival I became free. No one would have the power to hurt me again. — Mia Asher

The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass. — James Patterson

Only non-judgmental love can set you free - not truth. — Debasish Mridha

The truth may set you free. It won't fill your fuel tank. — Mira Grant

Whoever said that the truth will set you free was full of shit. — Melyssa Winchester

For you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." Those are probably the most famous words ever spoken on the subject of truth. Most of us accept that particular sentence at face value. It certainly resonates with our spirit. It just feels right. But what does it mean, really? And have you ever contemplated the meaning that comes to light by inverting this principle? If it is correct that "you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free," then is it possible that if you don't know the truth, its absence can place you in bondage? — Andy Andrews

See the truth will set you free. You can go ahead and say that prayer now pastor, I'm pretty sure they'll need it. — Evelyn Smith

When you trust and you lose - it is because you were wrong to trust and what you believed was merely a phantom. But when you doubt and you lose - it is because in your wanting so much not to be wrong, you lost something that was entirely beautiful for you. More is lost, in the end, by those who doubt. I would rather lose the phantom. — C. JoyBell C.

The truth will set you free! — Linda Diane Wattley

...You bring out the truth in me, Callista, and make me whole. I need you to set me free and give me the courage to be as strong as you are. I love you... — Catherine LaRoche

The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. — Nick Hornby

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free. — Glenn Beck

Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are — Donald Miller

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (8:32) — The Gospel According To John

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free. — Michael Specter

The truth may set you free, but first it will shatter the safe, sweet way you live. — Sue Monk Kidd

Don't let belief masquerade as knowledge. Truth is real, and not just a matter of personal perception: Search for it, dig for it, follow the evidence. The truth isn't free; you have to earn it, and when you do, it will set you free. — David F. Capps

Here is the good news, the truth that will set you free: You don't need their approval to be happy! So let it go! Stop wasting emotional energy on something that is never going to happen and something that isn't necessary for you to be happy. They are miserable, but you don't have to be. There is no sane reason for both of you to be miserable! — Rick Warren

THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE, LIES WILL PUT YOU INTO PRISON — Nelson M. Lubao

The truth shall set you free...unless of course you live anywhere w/vengeful, powerful people and/or government - John: First Draft — Grea Alexander

The truth may be better than lies ... But it doesn't always set you free. — Harlan Coben

They say the truth will set you free, but what nobody tells you is that sometimes the truth will also make you miserable. — Laurie Viera Rigler

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty. — Keith Ablow

This is the difference between God and booze. God requires something of us. The booze numbs the pain but God insists on nothing short of healing. God deals only with truth and the truth will set you free, but it will hurt so badly first. Sobriety will be like walking toward my own crucifixion. that what it will take though. That's what it will take to rise. — Glennon Doyle Melton

That truth set me free, along with other truths like leaning daily on God's grace and realizing that God's children are never victims. Everything that touches their lives, he permits. The irony is, you can't imagine a more victimized person than Jesus. Yet when he died, he didn't say, "I am finished" but "It is finished." He did not play the victim, and thus he emerged the victor. Forget the self-pity. True, your supervisor may be trying to push you out of your job. Your marriage may be a fiery trial. You might be living below the poverty level. But victory is ours in Christ. His grace is sufficient. Know this truth and it will set you free. This day, Jesus, I can feel sorry for myself or victorious in you. Show me how to choose the latter. — Joni Eareckson Tada

The truth shall set you free only if you cherish the taste of freedom. John 8:31-32 — Felix Wantang

Tell the people the truth will set you free. — Pope John Paul II

The truth was always the truth, but until I knew the truth for myself, I couldn't be free. — Shelley Hendrix

The truth really does set you free - but what they don't tell you is the process hurts like hell. — Rachel Van Dyken

Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you. — Ernie J Zelinski

T know what they say about secrets. I've heard it all. That they can haunt and govern you. That they can poison relationships and divide families. That in the end, only the truth will set you free. — Emily Giffin

Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The truth might set you free, but there's nothing that says you have to be grateful. — Simon R. Green

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. — Clarence Darrow

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We're helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, just as Prabhakar told it to me, just as I'm telling it to you now. — Gregory David Roberts

True intelligence is pure love which does not exclude or waste anything.
Not even a grain of sand is excluded or wasted. There are no exceptions in what is set free and in what is in service to this setting free.
Life, the formless, form and fragrance, knows exactly what it is doing.
Life is pure, unfiltered Intelligence flowing as whatever shape is now appearing.
It is alive and it is all calling us Home.
Do you hear the grain of sand calling your name?
It says, "Love."
Do you sense the truth of it?
If not, lean in and 'listen' again -
this time with the whole of your being. — Dhyana Stanley

The truth can set you free, but when it comes, it's more like a wrecking-ball than a holy beam of illumination. — Bryant McGill

Well, that's not what the Bible preaches. It says if you know the truth, it'll set you free. — Sue Monk Kidd

The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there. — Jon Foreman

Not only truth can set you free, but forgiveness as well. — Auliq Ice

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. — John

Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'. — Suzy Kassem

This doesn't seem like one of those 'truth will set you free' situations. — Paulo Costanzo

Mackenzie, the truth shall set you free and the truth has a name; he's over in the woodshop right now covered in sawdust. Everything is about him. And freedom is a process that happens inside a relationship with him. Then all that stuff you feel churnin' around inside will start to work its way out. — Wm. Paul Young

The truth will set you free (The Bible) — Robert Baohm

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. John 8:32 — Beth Moore

What's it like being with her? Is it true what they say about older chicks?"
"She's not that much older."
"Uh, okay. So anyway, how is it?"
"It's incredible."
"What's she do"
"She does everything, Ben. — Tracey Garvis-Graves

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will. — Ken Wilber

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. — David Foster Wallace

Heavenly Father, Sometimes it is difficult for me to see You as You really are. By faith in the testimony of Jesus, however, I accept you as my forgiving heavenly Father. A Father who loves me with unlimited love. A Father whose patience is inexhaustible. A Father who is eager to have fellowship with me. A Father who focuses on me and my position as Your child, not on my sin. A Father who rejoices when I turn to You from my sin whether it be one single act or a season of rebellion. Expose the errors in my thinking toward You and fill me with the truth, for I know that in discovering the truth I will be set free. Amen. — Charles F. Stanley

Set you free? The truth can get you locked up. The truth can get you force medicated. The truth can set you on fire. — Carl-John X. Veraja

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free. — Robert Frost

The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified
and vulnerable. — Melina Marchetta

They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie ... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by. — Ani DiFranco

The truth will set you free: believability will give you credibility. — Garrison Wynn

Before the TRUTH can set you free,you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage. — Prince Ea

Tell your boss what you really think about him
and the truth shall set you free. — Patrick Murray

[Jesus said] If you abide in My word [hold fast to My teachings and live in accordance with them], you are truly My disciples. And You will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free. - JOHN 8:31B-32 — Joyce Meyer

Conscious awareness is the source of our healing ... Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process. — Marianne Williamson

Sometimes the truth will hurt and a lie will set you free; just as a lie will hurt and the truth will set you free. — Anthony Liccione

You can transcend all negativity when you realize that the only power it has over you is your belief in it. As you experience this truth about yourself you are set free. — Eileen Caddy

Most of us avoid telling the truth because it's uncomfortable. We're afraid of the consequences - making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings, or risking their anger. And yet, when we don't tell the truth, and others don't tell us the truth, we can't deal with matters from a basis in reality. We've all heard the phrase that "the truth will set you free." And it will. The truth allows us to be free to deal with the way things are, not the way we imagine them to be or hope them to be or might manipulate them to be with our lies. The truth also frees up our energy. It takes energy to withhold the truth, keep a secret, or keep up an act. — Jack Canfield

Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free. — Amish Tripathi

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. — Oprah Winfrey

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

John 8:32 — Apostle Of Jesus Christ

THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE WHILE LIES SHALL PUT YOU IN JAIL — Nelson M. Lubao

This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world ... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods ... It seems to me we owe the world
more, we owe ourselves
the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free. — Mira Grant

God deals only with truth and the truth will set you free, but it will hurt so badly first. Sobering up will be like walking toward my own crucifixion. — Glennon Doyle Melton