Quotes about Authenticity

For how could I justly be blamed and prohibited from loving false things, if it were false that I loved them?

Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to...use words.

Preach the Gospel, use words when necessary.

There is no use in walking anywhere to preach if your walking isn't your preaching.

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.

If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another.