Quotes About Authenticity

We all go about burdened with the reality that we are the broken-off ends of true people.

You'll find that as you grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self you've been all along.

You can put your boots in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits. - You can say whatever you want about something, but that doesn't change what it is.

By sheer grace, God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world. " —LIFE TOGETHER

Nothing can compensate for a lack of authenticity.

Grace strips away the tin, rips off the masks, helps us to be ourselves so that when we speak of our faith it rings true.

Second, always speak the truth without fear.

The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God—not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice. —A. W. Tozer3

Mientras mejor sepamos quiénes somos, más grande será nuestra efectividad y facilidad para hablar, y menores serán nuestros intentos por ser quien no somos. Esto

nothing to prove, nothing to lose.

Jesus doesn't ask us blindly to believe; He invites us to believe Him. The ineffable, transcendent God became a material, flesh-and-blood human to give us all the evidence we need. And to claim that abundance, all we must do is trust Jesus—trust His words and trust the authenticity of His gift.

Gordon actually wore the company uniform as if he meant it, unlike Bill, who occupied his uniform like a hermit crab living in an abandoned Coke can.

demonstrating the importance of being Ernst as the marketing department put it.

History is written by the survivors, a narrative they compose to explain events to themselves. So the historicity of journals like this one—their accuracy and authenticity—is a function of the reliability of the narrator

It seems I have not been truly myself for a long time," he says, barely whispering, a dry, papery sound like files shuffling in a dead document archive.

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Sometimes I feel my thoughts are not my own, that I am thinking wrong things, stupid things, ridiculous things, for the amusement of an unseen audience.

The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties – these books exist, and they're tempting – but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind.

Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work...Give that to the world, rather than selling something to the world. Don't allow yourself to be tricked into thinking that the way things are is the way the world must work and that in the end selling is what everyone must do. Try not to.

Our work is to reflect the world, say what is true in the face of so much lying.

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

Shakespeare's Polonius said, "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

103When we try to be something that we are not, we become the slave of a rigid, fixed mind, following a rule about how things have to be. The violence and the anger in us remain unnoticed, because we are caught in our pictures of how we should be.

I don't appreciate people who celebrate their dog's birthdays with dog parties, and then invite their friends who don't even have dogs. I understand why people like dogs, and I think they definitely bring more to the table than cats or those godforsaken ferrets, but I don't think it's healthy for people to treat their dogs like they are real people.