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Quotes About Authenticity

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
~ Francis Chan
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
~ Amy Carmichael
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
~ Adoniram Judson
Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.
~ Kodo Sawaki
This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
~ David Platt
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
~ Swami Vivekananda
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.
~ Charles Grodin
The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.
~ D. Elton Trueblood
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
~ Dorothy Day
I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?
~ Francis Chan
"The best form of devotion to the service of Allah is not to make a show of it."
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.
~ Rajneesh
Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.
~ Frederick Buechner
All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
~ Charles Spurgeon
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.
~ PZ Myers
Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.
~ Robert Murray M'Cheyne
You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.
~ Rick Warren
God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
~ R. C. Sproul
I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.
~ Jimmy Buffett
God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.
~ Johnny Cash
There is no god higher than truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
What's the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don't change what's on the inside,were it really counts ?
~ Randa Abdel-Fattah
Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer