Quotes about Honesty

Someone once said that you never see a person in a protest carrying a sign with an arrow pointing downward and with the words "I am the problem" painted on it.

The things you do and say always tell you more about yourself than whoever you're speaking or responding to

We all tend to want to think we are more righteous than we actually are.

The heart of true prayer is vertical confession, not horizontal desire.

In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

Be thankful when you made the right choices and admit it when you didn't.

The best bit of advice I ever received about how to pray was this: keep it simple, keep it real, keep it up.

Church is too often the most risky place to be spiritually honest.

A relationship based on trust means not walking on eggshells, but talking openly, honestly, with no hint of passive-aggressiveness or any of the other dysfunctional manipulative tactics we tend to impose on family and friends.

Feeling like God is far away, disinterested, or dead to you is part of our Bible and can't be brushed aside. And that feeling—no matter how intense it may be, and even offensive as it may seem—is never judged, shamed, or criticized by God. Worshipping other gods or acting unjustly toward others gets criticized about every three sentences, but not this honest talk of feeling abandoned by God.

Another dynamic at work here is how friends, family, and church members would handle it if they knew what you were thinking. Feeling judged and banished is a common story among those who take a risk to let people in on their well-guarded secret.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.