Quotes About Authenticity

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car." ? Garrison Keillor But he got it from Billy Sunday... Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). "Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

I'm the perfect girl. You read about me in Maxim or whatever. I tell dirty jokes like I'm one of the guys, and I'm sitting there in my panties and bra so you can see I'm a piece of ass in the bargain. Except I'm real, so I come with all kinds of complications.

The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.

Garth on making his stories feel real Things like armour, clothes and other small details are very important in building up the reality of the story... I do spend quite a lot of time on things like clothing, armour, weapons and try and make them feel real.

So I'll do that, and I'll do my best, and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.

True love cannot begin until the in-love experience has run its course. We cannot take credit for the kind and generous things we do while under the influence of the obsession.

The words "I love you" should never be diluted with conditional statements.

If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar. —1 John 4:20

Watch out! Don't do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven. —Matthew 6:1

To say nothing takes nothing and means nothing; to speak the truth in love takes supernatural strength. — Jim Zabloski

If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that. —Matthew 5:47

Don't just pretend to love others. Really love them. —Romans 12:9

Nuestra necesidad emocional más básica no es enamorarnos, sino ser amado de verdad por el otro, conocer un amor que brota de la razón y de la decisión, no del instinto. Necesito que me ame alguien que decida amarme, que vea en mí algo digno de amar.

We can be pleased about what we do, but we also need to remember that although actions are important, the person behind the actions is more important!

Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth."2

5   If I love them only when they please me (conditional love), and if I express my love to them only at those times, they will not feel genuinely loved.

We can recognize the in-love experience for what it was—a temporary emotional high—and now pursue "real love" with our spouse.

We have grown away from knowledge, away from knowing what something is really like, toward knowing only what somebody else says it is like. There seems to be a desire to ignore the truth in favor of drama.

He was what he was, and if he was wrong or had mental problems, that was still the way he was, the way he had to live.

3. Embarrassing admissions support historical claims. An indicator that an event or saying is authentic occurs when the source would not be expected to create the story, because it embarrasses his cause and `weakened its position in arguments with opponents. 5

2. Attestation by an enemy supports historical claims. If testimony affirming an event or saying is given by a source who does not sympathize with the person, message, or cause that profits from the account, we have an indication ofauthenticity.

stockbrokers, secretaries, government functionaries—everybody back then was expected to have some kind of inner life.

There, I was ridiculed for being an inauthentic American, and now I am being charged with being an inauthentic Russian. I do not yet understand that this very paradox is the true subject of so-called immigrant fiction.

Every author who straddles culture is inauthentic in a way.