Quotes about Authenticity

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.

Facts speak plainer than words

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

Boasters brag most when they cannot be detected.

Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.

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.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but Do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test. Do you love me stripped of everything that might be lost, for only the things I will have for ever?

Wanting to sound like other people has its temptations. There are inherited habits of speech guaranteed to make us sound authoritative, intelligent, worldly, appropriately grateful, or deeply moved.

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.

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

God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.