Quotes about Sincerity
God will not cooperate with prayers of mere self-interest, or prayers that come from impure motives.
- J. Oswald Sanders
There is a common worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough. This cheap Christianity . . . offends nobody, requires no sacrifice, costs nothing, and is worth nothing!
- JC Ryle
Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.
- Dale Carnegie
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A minister or a Christian is what he lives, not what he preaches.
- John Bevere
But sacrifices are useless when unaccompanied by hearts that love and fear God.
- John Bevere
True love doesn't flatter; it's truthful.
- John Bevere
Religion has no place in his heart, his home, or his conversation. He is all talk, and his religion is to make noise with his mouth. Really!
- John Bunyan
For instance, I have seen many cry out against sin in the pulpit who yet abide it well enough in their own heart, home, and manner of life. Potiphar's
- John Bunyan
The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's
- John Bunyan