Quotes About Authenticity

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

I just owe it to myself, to God and to everybody who supports me and people who don't even know me yet, to just be fully intentional and authentically real with everything I do, say and create.

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.

My worth to God in public is what I am in private.

Be true to yourself, know that your are more than your face and body, and keep God first.

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

Make sure you are doing what is important to God-not just what is important to everyone else you know.

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?

We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.

Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.

Just be honest with who you are. Don't pretend to be something you're not. Don't be a phony. Walk your talk. That's how God works, so doing it is emulating how Source works.

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance . . . but we still live on the earth, and everyone here looks at the exterior, because only God sees the interior.

Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion.

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.