Quotes About Honesty

So, when you are sinned against or when the fallen world breaks your door down, don't lash out or run away. Stand in your weakness and confusion and say, "I am not alone. God is with me, and he is faithful, powerful, and willing." You can be realistic and hopeful at the very same time. Realistic expectations are not about hope without honesty, and they are not about honesty without hope. Realism is found at the intersection of unabashed honesty and uncompromising hope.

In a real way, things are worse than you ever thought they could be, but God's grace is greater than you could ever have imagined it would be. Biblical faith lives at the intersection of shocking honesty and glorious hope.

Midlife doesn't introduce you to a new you; it forces you to admit who you have been all along.

There is no one we swindle more than we swindle ourselves. There is no one we run to defend more than we do ourselves. And like every other spiritually blind person, Joe was blind to his blindness.

When we deny our difficulties in order to feel immediate peace, we are not exercising biblical faith.

As I've said before, I really do love the honesty of the Bible. I don't need vacuous religious platitudes that delude me into thinking that life is better than it really is. I don't need a form of faith

You will always deny your need for God's grace when you are more irritated than convicted. It's possible to be irritated with things in other people that you regularly excuse in yourself.

Be honest. What kind of success are you hooking your heart to and how is it shaping the decisions you make and the actions you take?

Someone once said that you never see a person in a protest carrying a sign with an arrow pointing downward and with the words "I am the problem" painted on it.

The things you do and say always tell you more about yourself than whoever you're speaking or responding to

It's a tragedy when we praise God for his grace on Sunday and deny our need for that grace the rest of the week. Face

We all tend to want to think we are more righteous than we actually are.

Wasn't this rugged business of taking your life apart, looking at all of it and admitting and remembering and reminding yourself of all the bad - wasn't the big result of it your getting to be honest? "Exactly that," said Ferguson.

It would be masochistic and sadistic of me to tell the truth about something if I knew for sure that I would create only misery for myself and others. We've all heard of pathological liars. Telling the truth in such circumstances would be an example of being pathologically honest. We need to judge each behavior on its specific consequences for happiness and not on the basis of whether or not it accords to a generally good rule.

A broken promise is not a lie.

MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

The failure to remember is not a lie, although liars will often try to excuse their lies, once discovered, by claiming a memory failure. It is not uncommon to forget actions that one regrets, but if the forgetting truly has occurred, we should not consider that a lie. for there was no choice involved. Often it will not be possible to determine whether a memory failure has occurred or whether its invocation is itself a lie.

Not everyone is able to lie or is willing to do so.

can you tell when a politician is lying? When he moves his lips!

Public opinion polls time and again show that honesty is among the top five characteristics people want in a leader, friend, or lover.

I've realized that prayer can become the occasion for a good bit of unintentional dishonesty with myself, or maybe an escape from my own messy reality.

The system needs to get right to the bottom line and remain very transparent in terms of its format, structure, and intent.

We do not need a bodyguard of lies. We can afford to present ourselves in the totality of our acts.

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.