Quotes about Authenticity

And it's always a bad move to invent a Jesus who agrees with us rather than challenges us.

What could be more normal than for different people, living at different times, in different places, who wrote about the past for different reasons and to different audiences, to produce different versions on the past? Nothing. And that's what we see in the Bible.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”

For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.

I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man.

Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.

On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”

Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.