Quotes about Authenticity
The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).
- Richard Baxter
It is a palpable error of some ministers, who make such a disproportion between their preaching and their living; who study hard to preach exactly, and study little or not at all to live exactly.
- Richard Baxter
Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).
- Richard Baxter
Desire a thousand times more to be godly, than to seem so.
- Richard Baxter
In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
How you do life is your real and final truth, not what ideas you believe.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Integrity largely has to do with purifying our intentions and a growing honesty about our actual motives.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
I guess prophets are those who do not care whether you are ready to hear their message. They say it because it has to be said and because it is true.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
What the ego (the False Self) hates and fears more than anything else is change. It will think up a thousand other things to be concerned about or be moralistic about—anything rather than giving up "who I think I am" and "who I need to be to look good.
- Fr. Richard Rohr