Quotes about Authenticity

The young man meant for you, Lilly, will not require any tricks or ploys to be played upon him. He will see you, he will grow to know who you are--both the good and the bad--and he will realize he does not wish to live another day of his life without you.

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

There is no point in spending time with someone who makes you forget your sense of self.

In my relationship with God, I've learned that if I follow a 'formula' for how I spend my time with Him, then I'm just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful.

Over the years of running Into The Gloss, I began to see a gap in the way beauty companies were creating products and marketing them to women. There wasn't one brand that really spoke to girls like me, who created products for real life. So we set out to create that brand with Glossier.

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.