Quotes about Authenticity

Perhaps the book of life, in the end, is the book of what one has lived and if one has lived nothing, he is not in the book of life.

Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

Language used truly, not mere talk, neither propaganda, nor chatter, has real power. Its words are allowed to be themselves, to bless or curse, wound or heal. They have the power of a 'word made flesh,' of ordinary speech that suddenly takes hold, causing listeners to pay close attention, and even to release bodily sighs--whether of recognition, delight, grief, or distress.

Don't fool yourself by thinking you can talk ugly about somebody and then act lovingly toward them. You can't. Your actions are going to fall right in line with your words. That's a biblical principle.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.

The way to truth stands open only to those without intentions.

There is only one way and that is your way. There is only one salvation and that is your salvation...What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare. Do not measure. No other way is like yours...You must fulfill the way that is in you.

You should be he himself--not Christians, but Christ.