Neither name or numbers count anything with God or have anything to do with determining what is truth. 10,000 princes know no more than one humble, labouring man.
Every man may possess just as much of truth as he is willing to use and no more.
Trying to please men – corrupts truth.
Self love is always at the bottom of efforts to conciliate and please men. Do we please God only?
When the name of an highly esteemed pastor/doctor is sighted to justify belief or give more weight, we can be sure that they know nothing of the truth they profess, even if it is truth they obviously don't know it, so it is not true. Everyone is privileged to know truth. When anyone adds 10,000 times 10,000 great names in its favour, it doesn't add one feather to the weight of its authority, nor is my confidence shaken if every man great or small should oppose it.
A grand thing it is indeed to be built upon the Rock.
No one can do anything against the truth but for the truth.
Remember, wisdom is a gift from God. Truth is revealed, not searched out by human shrewdness. We get truth merely by looking to God and His word. Only the thoughts of God will stand. The Lord gives no wisdom apart from Himself in Christ.
Truth cannot be built up by falsehood. Truth is that which is, therefore truth is life.
Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments are truth. Psalms 119:151
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all Whose works are truth, and His ways judgment: and those that walk in pride He is able to abase. Daniel 4:37
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John 1:17
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the
Father, but by Me. John 14:6
Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth. John 17:17
This is He that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. 1 John 5:6