Quotes About Authenticity

It is not what you say that matters. It is what you are and how you live.

God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.

Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.

God created you this way. You're you. I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

There is only one you. God wanted you to be you. Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!

I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.

The real you is on the side of God against the false self

God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else.

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

I'm trying my best to sound like me rather than trying my best to write hits or praying to God that people respond. I've arrived in a very healthy place and it feels great!

I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.

As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

I came to let you know, God is not going to his authenticity be destroyed.

God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

I don't need to be 19 years old or starve myself for some weight or turn men's heads down that road. And thank God I finally know that.

God Tris, are you even human?

If you want to put on a suit and come to church, fine. But it's a problem when you make people feel like, if you don't do this, you're not going to be accepted and God doesn't look at that.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

Being a down-to-earth type of individual, I feel like I can connect with people on a different level, versus the GOD-like pedestal that people tend to put us on.

If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

Heartless praise is not praise at all. It is worthless and an insult to God.