Quotes about Authenticity
I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.
- John Lennon
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
- John Lennon
People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.
- John Lennon
Image is what people think we are; integrity is whar we really are.
- John Maxwell
One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.
- Moby
Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
- Dolly Parton
In my experience, it's much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one. Anyone can put on an act. But your reactions reveal what is really in your heart.
- Mark Batterson
I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.
- David Platt
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
- Charles Spurgeon
If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.
- JC Ryle
There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Don't follow those who can talk a big game about their amazing faith in Christ. Follow people who are actually following Christ.
- Kevin DeYoung