Quotes About Authenticity

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

You can't please everyone and trying to do so is the kiss of death.

I don't give the same credibility to my being that other people give to theirs. Everything feels acted.

That people were manifold creatures didn't come as a surprise to the Swede, even if it was a bit of a shock to realize it anew when someone let you down. What was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff was that made them who they were and, drained of themselves, turn into the sort of people they would once have felt sorry for.

You know what he did for a living before the war? Sold champagne. A liquor salesman, Sandy. A fake—a plutocrat and a thief and a fake. Even the 'von' in his name is a fake.

I don't believe lies are something to stand on. I believe lies are something to build on.

in truth nothing lives in me life my life.

Being Zuckerman is one long performance and the very opposite of what is thought of as being oneself.

Throughout the Bible, in fact, God shows a marked preference for "real" people over "good" people.

we should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.

Apart from the requirement that we be authentic before God, there is no prescribed way to pray. Each of us presents a unique mix of personality, outlook, training, gifts, and weaknesses, as well as a unique history with church and with God. As Roberta Bondi says, "If you are praying, you are already 'doing it right.

I know of only two alternatives to hypocrisy: perfection or honesty.

Y el mundo que nos observa, juzga a Dios por aquellos que llevan su nombre. En gran medida, la desilusión con Dios brota de la desilusión con los demás cristianos.

Over time Christians learned that the faith grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.

True hope is honest.

From such experiments Christians have learned that the gospel grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.

He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.