Quotes about Sincerity
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
- Will Rogers
The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
- William Hazlitt
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
- William Hazlitt
I had been heaping up my devotions before God, fasting, praying, &c. pretending, and indeed really thinking sometimes, that I was aiming at the glory of God; whereas I never once truly intended it, but only my own happiness.
- David Brainerd
Worship: Where God isn't moved by the quality of our voice but by the condition of our hearts.
- Chris Tomlin
Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.
- Alistair Begg
In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.
- Matt Redman
God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
- CS Lewis
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.
- Alexander Hamilton
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
- John Ortberg
God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!
- David Wilkerson