Quotes About Authenticity

The church is the real thing when it is not consumed with the assertion of power in culture, but it is driven by service to others. The word ministry translates the Greek word diakonia, which means service. The church must be about serving others. When a church can lay claim to all three criteria, namely, preaching of the Word, being true to its confession, and focusing on serving, then it's a church worth going to. And then it's a church full of sermons worth listening to.

There are two types of liers...those that lie to others, and those that lie to themselves.

Your true heart is best revealed in secret. In other words, the secret you is the real you.

We're lovable in the ordinary.

T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16)

Ultimately, though, you only know who a man is and what he believes by what he does. Not by what he sits around talking about.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design.

But somehow, even when we are grown up and "adjusted," everything we do and are—our handwriting, the vibrato of our voice, the way we handle the bow or breathe into the instrument, our way of using language, the look in our eyes, the pattern of whorling fingerprints on our hand—all these things are symptomatic of our original nature.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

Be true, unbeliever.

There cannot be even the smallest grain of falsehood in it or it is not truth. I have discovered the source of all truth; how can I deny what I know?

Las palabras que tengo que deciros son más amargas que la ceniza. Entonces ¡escúpelas ya! No serán más dulces por no pronunciarlas.

Truth, they say, is a cold and bitter draught; few drink it undiluted.

Irreverent or not, it is true.

We are least ourselves when those bodies are stuck in the concrete of a city sidewalk. We are most ourselves when walking through the mountains.

Stand out from the crowd, be yourself.

Be yourself, as no one else can.

Whatever it takes to find the real you, don't be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.

When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.

Even though your thinking might not be right for others, just so long as it's right for you then that's all what matters.

Be yourself and become wealthy!