Quotes about Sincerity
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.
- St. Augustine
Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.
- Charles Spurgeon
The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.
- Elisabeth Elliot
It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
- Abraham Lincoln
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.
- AW Tozer
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
- Elbert Hubbard
I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.
- George Eliot
Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.
- Mark Twain
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
- Publilius Syrus
It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God's sight than to appear lovely to man's eyes but lame to God's.
- Oswald Chambers
Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men".
- Oswald Chambers
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson