Quotes about Authenticity

Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. Imitation is something altogether different.

The danger we have is that we want to water down what Jesus said to make it mean something that aligns with our common sense.

Simple active work and spiritual activity are not the same thing. Active work can actually be the counterfeit of spiritual activity.

At the foundation of Jesus Christ's kingdom is the genuine loveliness of those who are commonplace.

Beware of counterfeiting the love of God by working along the line of natural human sympathy, because that will end in blaspheming the love of God.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life. Is my primary goal in life to please Him and to be acceptable to Him, or is it something less, no matter how lofty it may sound?

Crises always reveal a person's true character.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.

renounce it as soon as it comes to mind—renounce everything in its entirety until there is no hidden dishonesty or craftiness about you at all.

The people who influence us the most are not those who detain us with their continual talk, but those who live their lives like the stars in the sky and "the lilies of the field"—simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mold and shape us.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life." Oswald Chambers

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.