Quotes About Honesty

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society

True understanding involves sincere honesty and holistic, deep listening without the political corruption of evil power players. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my book K.H. trilogy

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide tactics they would never openly admit to using.

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.

may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.