Quotes about Sincerity

Honesty is a suitor with piercing vision who isn't swayed by pretending and positioning.

but repentance is faith's fruit, and there is no more reality in a profession of faith than there is reality of repentance accompanying it.

Prayer is such an intimate act, a place of vulnerability. It is, hopefully, when we are our least guarded, our most honest selves. And this is good, of course; this is as it ought to be. When we come to God, we certainly want to come as honestly and openly as we can; we want to be our truest selves before him. Prayer lets us be in a place of need.

Life is a hypocrite if I can't live The way it moves me!

This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness. But it is not.

People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.

In my experience, it's much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one. Anyone can put on an act. But your reactions reveal what is really in your heart.

True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong.

In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere profession of faith alone is no sound evidence of salvation.

The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.

Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.