Quotes about Sincerity
Love alone is credible.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
- St. Jerome
The genuiness of our worship cannot be measured in decibels of sound, and although it is vital that we express our love for God vocally, He looks to see the evidence in our lives.
- Graham Kendrick
Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.
- JC Ryle
To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.
- John Piper
It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
The truth of truths is love.
- Philip James Bailey
God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Almsgiving is not a service of God, but of vain-glory, if it spring not from divine love.
- Joseph Alleine
The church is never in so much danger as when it is popular and millions of people are saying "I'm born again, born again, born again.
- Eugene Peterson
But we do know that much of what we commonly describe as Christian behavior is not volitional at all—it is enforced. But worship is not forced. Everyone who worships does so because he or she wants to.
- Eugene Peterson
You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
- Eugene Peterson