Quotes about Honesty

Facts speak plainer than words

Boasters brag most when they cannot be detected.

Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.

I will never be able to do or be everything you want, nor vice versa, but I'd like to think we can be the sort of people who will dare to tell each other who we really are. The alternative is silence and lies, which are the real enemies of love.

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Truth was the only superglue that could mend the cracks in her family.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.

I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just be our true selves.

There is no truth towards Jesus without truth towards man. Untruthfulness destroys fellowship, but truth cuts false fellowship to pieces and establishes genuine brotherhood.

Who comes to the light? "Those who do what is true" (John 3:21)! What does this mean? Truth is supposed to happen; it is not only to be thought or willed, but to be done. Truth arises through action that is the opposite of pretense and darkness, which give rise to evil.