Quotes about Authenticity

When it comes to the truth, people have a right to know it. Always. No matter how much you think it might hurt, the truth is the only thing that both cuts us free and holds us tight.

All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need... To be known.

Many times in our lives, we act like He's still dead. But several times today, we've testified that He's not. So which is it? Why say one thing with your mouth and yet live another with your life? If He's alive, act like it. He either is or He isn't. You can't be half-alive.

All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need. One undeniable fear. To be known. You can stamp it out. Kill it. Box it up and hem it in. Numb it and close the door. Bury it and nail it shut. Encase it in stone. But eventually, the needs of the heart will tear the door off the hinges, unearth it, and crack the stone. No prison ever built could house it. Those of us who think we can are lying to ourselves. And those next to us. Hope never dies.

The truth is the only thing that doesn't hurt. The truth is a giant hand. It both cuts and holds us tight.

My dear boy... anybody can be good in the country.

It is alike your interest and mine and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.... the poet brings his poem... the farmer, corn... the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. This is right and pleasing, for it restores society in so far to its primary basis, when a man's biography is conveyed in his gift... But it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

The man who follows Christ in full, who denies himself and and dies to himself and to the world, can never, ever be a "bourgeois."

True success consists not in becoming the person you dreamed of being when you were young, but in becoming the person you were meant to be, the person you are capable of being when you are at your best.

Any God worth worshipping should prefer honest anger to hypocritical praise.

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.