Quotes about Authenticity
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
- Adoniram Judson
This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
- David Platt
I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?
- Francis Chan
Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.
- Frederick Buechner
All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
- Charles Spurgeon
I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.
- CS Lewis
You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.
- Rick Warren
God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
- RC Sproul
Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
- AW Tozer
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
- Charles Spurgeon
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
- George Bernard Shaw
You're only as sick as your secrets.
- Rick Warren