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When it comes to the culture, there's no such thing as peaceful coexistence. If we're not defending truth, fighting for Christian values in all of life, the truth will be sacrificed on the altar of mainstream secularism. -- Charles Colson
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn
The truth does not need to be defended. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth. -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. -- Simone de Beauvoir
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. -- William Blake
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn
As much as we can, let's defend the truth by pointing to what the apostles taught, and let's call out sin by pointing to the inconsistencies between what we say we believe and what we do. -- John Piper
The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel. -- Rachel Cusk
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. -- James A. Garfield
To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology. -- Greg L. Bahnsen
A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it. -- C. S. Lewis
If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth. -- Harvey Bialy
While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth. -- Ronald H. Nash
The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify. -- Bob Dylan

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