Quotes about Authenticity

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Be you because everyone else is taken!

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.

If we only give up something to God because we want more back, there is nothing of the Holy Spirit in our abandonment; it is miserable commercial self-interest.

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

When we become simply a promoter or a defender of a particular belief, something within us dies.

But it is better to enter into life maimed and lovely in God's sight than to be lovely in man's sight and lame in God's.