Quotes About Honesty

And it's always a bad move to invent a Jesus who agrees with us rather than challenges us.

Feel free to call this a faith crisis. It's hard to imagine talking like this in church. Letting your guard down and bearing your soul with this degree of raw honesty is risky. You might find yourself in the middle of a protect-you-from-atheism intervention prayer phone chain faster than you can say "Bill Maher." Or you might be judged as a weak or uncommitted Christian and shunned.

Feeling like God is far away, disinterested, or dead to you is part of our Bible and can't be brushed aside. And that feeling—no matter how intense it may be, and even offensive as it may seem—is never judged, shamed, or criticized by God. Worshipping other gods or acting unjustly toward others gets criticized about every three sentences, but not this honest talk of feeling abandoned by God.

I've never met a good politician.

Sometimes kindness is wiser than truth

My father told me by the time you die you'll be lucky if you have six people you called your friends to carry your coffin.I now realize and believe the truth is I thought if I had a dollar for every friend I in my life I'd be rich. The sad truth is if I had a penny for every true friend I have I wouldn't have a nickel.

Do not become what you dispise.

Keep my word' is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means 'Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, 'Hold your words back.' Keep them in. Let your actions speak instead.

That was what we meant by science. That both question and answer are tied up with uncertainty, and that they are painful. But that there is no way round them, And that one hides nothing; instead everything is brought out into the open.

There's not a single human being who doesn't find it a relief to be forced to tell the truth.

The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they are real and true they come to the painting with everything they know and feel and live, and all the things they don't know, and some of the things they hope, and they are honest about them all and put them on the canvas. What can be more serious?

Heart-level honesty in the presence of God postures us for change.

All men lie. That's how they operate. if you want a longterm relationship with a man you've got to understand it's going to be with a liar. It's in their nature - it's genetic, it's a bloody Darwinian acquired characteristic for survival, OK? They tell you what they want you to hear.

Sure you're not going to miss it, Roy?' 'I'll miss the camaraderie, but not the politics. Too much of that, these days. Know what I'm looking forward to most of all?' 'No – what?' 'It's being able to go into a pub and say what I really think, without having to worry that one of my bosses gets to hear about it,

Don't make excuses for shitty people. You can't put a flower in an asshole and call it a vase.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; but if not, let me know, so that I may go elsewhere.”

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ëShe is my sisterí?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.

Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.

I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.