Quotes About Authenticity

Martin Luther King Jr.

If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.

you will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile,laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you

But the judgement of God is upon the church as never before. If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust.

What you're saying may get you a foundation grant but it won't get you into the kingdom of truth.

Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you.

This is reality, not a dream.

Our children are grown, we've enjoyed some success in our lives, and we're looking for something else now to fulfill ourselves....It's like being adolescents all over again, only this time we don't care if everyone likes the way we look or the clothes we wear. Or even if people like us at all. That nasty competition is over. I see this as a time to be who we've always seen ourselves as being, deep in our hearts.

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

If we were to see the grandeur of our real selves, I suspect we would also see the necessity of living up to who we really are. And most of us are too lazy for that. Or else we are having too good a time enjoying our less than perfect lives to be bothered. (Claudia Martin)

Sou todas as pessoas que já fui - esclareceu - e todas as experiências que vivi. Não tenho de fazer opções. Não tenho de renegar uma identidade para poder reclamar outra. Sou quem sou. In Uma noite de amor

Why say something, he asked her, if your words mean nothing?

Love does not deck the beloved in chains. It just is.

You still do not quite understand, do you? she said softly. I do not want you to change. I fell head over ears in love with you the first time I saw you just because you are who you are.

Honesty and Poetry are the same thing

No good can ever come of falsehood

If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu's words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me to hide behind.

Kad sam ?ula kako to govori, suze su mi jednostavno probile krhki zid koji ih je zadržavao i sa strašnim osje?ajem srama, položila sam glavu na stol i pustila ih sa se izliju iz mene.

It's not what you wear or how you look, it's what you feel like that makes you what you are

Te veel kennis over onszelf doen we op uit de blikken van anderen. Wij vertrouwen eerder op hoe wij gezien worden dan op hoe wij onszelf zien.

Eerst zie je er niks geks in rond te tollen tot je erbij neervalt, maar op een dag valt het je op dat mensen naar jou kijken, je vertraagt en houdt nog even vol, maar ten slotte, om niet op te vallen, stop je er maar mee.

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...