Quotes About Honesty

We can call it what it is and ask God to help us. I'm tired, God. What do I do? I'm lonely, God. What do I do? I'm mad, God. What do I do? I'm insecure, God. What do I do? I'm frustrated, God. What do I do? Outward expressions are internal indications.

As long as I suspect that honesty's intention is to expose me and hurt me, it will always feel like a dangerous thing.

Honesty wanted me to bring the core of who I believe I am and hold it up to the light of what's really true. And there's not a soul alive who will find perfect alignment there. Not. One.

Honesty is a suitor with piercing vision who isn't swayed by pretending and positioning.

Honesty isn't trying to hurt me. It's trying to heal me.

Truth and godliness always walk hand in hand.

It is good to be honest with God, but we must be careful that we don't become whiners. There is nothing that aggravates my heart more than to hear whining and complaining, especially from my kids. I can't help but think the Lord might feel the same way.

Soul integrity is honesty that's godly.

In this great day when most women wave banners of authenticity about our pasts, we crouch back from honesty about our presents. We'll tell you all about our broken places of yesterday but don't dare admit the limitations of our today.

Dear Lord, help me to be courageous enough to speak honestly to You and to myself about areas where I'm giving in to compromise. Show me how to rely on Your strength for more self-discipline in my life — not for my glory, but for Yours. In Jesus' name. Amen.

We'll tell you all about our broken places of yesterday but don't dare admit the limitations of our today.

listen. 15Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

I had to get honest enough to admit it: I relied on food more than I relied on God. I craved food more than I craved God. Food was my comfort. Food was my reward. Food was my joy. Food was what I turned to in times of stress, sadness, and even in times of happiness.

In this great day when most women wave banners of authenticity about our pasts, we crouch back from honesty about our presents. We'll tell you all about our broken places of yesterday but don't dare admit the limitations of our today.

Lies flee in the presence of truth.

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted for a moment, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.

could be stretching the truth

Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

Clear thoughts," he said. "Clear sight. Kind words. Right acts.

Anyone who tells you her life is like a book has either been reading some bad books or is not being straight with you or herself about her life.

I think beauty can be a great lie. Sometimes the greatest lie.