Quotes about Authenticity
If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.
- Oswald Chambers
I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave
- CS Lewis
Show true religion, cause words don't relieve
- Francis Chan
Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.
- Billy Graham
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
- Jonathan Edwards
Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.
- Toni Morrison
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
- John Keats
The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!
- Henry Cloud