Quotes About Authenticity

Si pudiera me gustaría escribir con amor; pero si pudiera escribir con amor sería un hombre distinto al que soy.

An epitaph should speak the truth.

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

When we become simply a promoter or a defender of a particular belief, something within us dies.

But it is better to enter into life maimed and lovely in God's sight than to be lovely in man's sight and lame in God's.

Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. Imitation is something altogether different.

The danger we have is that we want to water down what Jesus said to make it mean something that aligns with our common sense.

Simple active work and spiritual activity are not the same thing. Active work can actually be the counterfeit of spiritual activity.

At the foundation of Jesus Christ's kingdom is the genuine loveliness of those who are commonplace.

Beware of counterfeiting the love of God by working along the line of natural human sympathy, because that will end in blaspheming the love of God.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life. Is my primary goal in life to please Him and to be acceptable to Him, or is it something less, no matter how lofty it may sound?

Crises always reveal a person's true character.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.

renounce it as soon as it comes to mind—renounce everything in its entirety until there is no hidden dishonesty or craftiness about you at all.

The people who influence us the most are not those who detain us with their continual talk, but those who live their lives like the stars in the sky and "the lilies of the field"—simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mold and shape us.

Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life." Oswald Chambers

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

If we try to prove to God how much we love Him, it is a sure sign that we really don't love Him. The evidence of our love for Him is the absolute spontaneity of our love, which flows naturally from His nature within us.

The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.

Once we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.