Quotes about Sincerity

God welcomes our prayers. He is much more concerned about our hearts than our eloquence.

Just because a person claims to be a Christian does not necessarily mean that he is one.

It is easy for Christians to allow themselves to be squeezed into the world's mold... When nonbelievers see nothing different in the lifestyle of believers, they wonder if our profession of faith is sincere.

Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

We cannot pray sincerely if our aim is not to bring glory to Him.

We insult God by speaking to Him with our lips while our hearts are far from Him.

We must do our best to answer—with gentleness and respect—any question we're asked, even if we think it isn't sincere or is only meant to put us on the spot. But the most important thing we can do is to show by our life and love that Jesus is real. Our actions often speak far louder than our words. Do others see Christ in you, both in what you say and in what you do?

Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Don't come to Jesus and try to be intellectually stimulating to Him. There's nothing you could say that would cause Him to respond, "Wow, that's a neat insight!" You may as well abort all attempts to be cerebral with Jesus; He simply doesn't try to engage us at that level. Just come and love Him. He's looking for heartfelt sincerity, for visceral passion, for authentic relationship.

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

To Him I look as my judge, to Him as the avenger of my wrongs, firm in my own good conscience and secure in the sincerity of my devotion, rooted in faith and confident that those who in the love of justice suffer injury can never be confounded, nor those who break the horns of the persecutors of the Church be deprived of their everlasting reward.