Quotes About Honesty

Then why on earth had she never told anyone about these things? Matthews asked. Linda didn't miss a beat. "Because no one ever asked," she said. "You're the first that ever did.

She said that in writing anything, you must be perfectly honest.

find more honest ways—both intellectually and emotionally—to talk about such magnificent intangibles as God, infinity, and consciousness.

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.

As she dressed that night, Lucy remembered Catherine's words: "If it's true, it isn't libel.

Truth has nutritional value.

No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See me! Look at me! Look at who I am! Look at who I want you to think I am!

That's the problem with revealing true truths. They make people uncomfortable. The truth should be grand and exotic, but mostly it isn't. Mostly it's uncomfortable.

Rather than being guided by images of how to be, people need to attend to how they actually are and to respect this.

Lying may be necessary, but should always be painful.

Your core value does not rest on the words of your husband or your mother or your father or your children or even your best friend. It rests on God's words because he's the only one who will always tell you the truth all the time. People change. They fail. They lie. Their knowledge is limited, their thinking distorted, and their hearts are not always pure or good. Therefore it's dangerous to allow them to determine your worth.

When you are the only one in your marriage caring, repenting, being respectful and honest, sacrificing, and working toward being a better spouse, you are a godly wife, but you don't have a healthy or biblical marriage.

When deceit and attack become a regular part of marital interactions, there is no clear communication, no resolution to the problem, and no healing. It's impossible to have a close, loving relationship with someone you can't trust, can't talk with, or who won't take a look at himself when he hurts you.

It is not your husband's lies that will do the most damage to you. It's the lies you tell yourself.

God calls us to be biblical peacemakers, not peacekeepers or peace fakers.

You can sweep broken glass under the carpet, but eventually it will work its way through the rug and cut your foot.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Oh Christ. I couldn't care less.... I can't say I'm overwhelmed with surprise. I'm 88 years old and they can't give the Nobel to someone who's dead, so I think they were probably thinking they'd probably better give it to me now before I've popped off.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else while you're uncool.

In politics, being deceived is no excuse.

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