Quotes about Authenticity

Some things that religious people make a big deal of are rather pointless. Avoid the insanity.

What happens is our lives become so heavily oriented around the expectations of others that we become more and more like them and less and less like ourselves. We become split. I was split. I had this person I knew I was made to be, yet it was mixed in with all of these other ... people. As the lights were turned on, I saw I had all of this guilt and shame because I wasn't measuring up to the image of the perfect person I had in my head.

Some things you do for you. You do them because it gives you great satisfaction and it puts a smile on your face and that's it. And that's fine. It's not just fine, it's necessary. It makes you a better person, it fills your soul, it opens you up to life in its fullness. So don't apologize for it, enjoy it.

I felt this new life surging up within me. I don't need people to be anywhere else. I can meet everybody where they are.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit.

Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.

Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.