Quotes about Authenticity

There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

For who knows not that Truth is strong..; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licencings to make her victorious.

When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.

C. S. Lewis wrote that in prayer we must "lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

I don't care about money.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

I don't have to wear a three-piece suit to be a good person, but I would like everything about me-even my clothes-to reflect a certain uncompromising integrity.

Laughter is the only free emotion-the only one that can't be compelled.