Quotes about Sincerity

Though we sing with the tongues of men and of angels, if we are not truly worshipping the living God, we are noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. Though we organize the liturgy most beautifully, if it does not enable us to worship the living God, we are mere ballet-dancers. Though we repave the floor and reface the stonework, though we balance our budgets and attract all the tourists, if we are not worshipping God, we are nothing.

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to. —C. S. Lewis

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Many of us are faithful to our ideas about Jesus Christ, but how many of us are faithful to Jesus Himself?

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

The first thing God does is forcibly remove any insincerity, pride, and vanity from my life. And the Holy Spirit reveals to me that God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.

Determinedly take no one seriously but God, and the first person you find you have to leave severely alone as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.

renounce it as soon as it comes to mind—renounce everything in its entirety until there is no hidden dishonesty or craftiness about you at all.

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

If we try to prove to God how much we love Him, it is a sure sign that we really don't love Him. The evidence of our love for Him is the absolute spontaneity of our love, which flows naturally from His nature within us.

If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises we cannot keep, build houses from flimsy stuff, conjure dreams that devolve into nightmares, and other people will suffer - if we are unfaithful to true self.