Quotes About Sincerity

Just remember that the most important thing is to be truthful to yourself. If you hang on to that, you won't go far wrong.

Lev,' said Ruby, 'when I was younger, I always told people the things I thought they wanted to hear. But I don't do that anymore. It's a cruel thing to do. So I can't say now that you will be free of it ( grief) and move on, because I just don't know the answer.

He couldn't deceive himself. He always looked things in the eye and never pretended that what he saw was not really happening.

A liar only lies when he hopes to be believed.

Take anything and everything seriously, except yourselves.

Forcing the carefully planned lie out with all the casualness he could muster, he said

He hadn't lied. He honestly liked her house, for the same reasons he was drawn to the woman. There was no artifice about either one.

Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?

There is something frightful in the fact that the most dangerous thing of all, playing at Christianity, is never included in the list of heresies and schisms.

What every man can do is to make the movement of infinite resignation, and I for my part would not hesitate to pronounce everyone cowardly who wishes to make himself believe he can not do it. With faith it is a different matter. But what every man has not a right to do, is to make others believe that faith is something lowly, or that it is an easy thing, whereas it is the greatest and the hardest. People

The Good is one thing; the reward is something else. To will the Good for the sake of reward is not to will one thing but two. If a man loves a woman for the sake of her wealth, who will call him a lover? To will the Good for the sake of reward is hypocrisy – sheer duplicity!

People had not so much as the courage and honesty and truth to say to God bluntly, That I cannot agree to, they resorted to hypocrisy and thought they were perfectly secure. pp 168-6

AÅŸk için her ÅŸey imgedir; ama imge de hakikattir.

So wonderful a power is remorse, so sincere is its friendship that to escape it entirely is the most terrible thing of all.

Solo hay un camino para asegurarse nunca ser engañado, y ese es el de creerlo todo amorosamente.

But one thing I will not do; no, not for anything in the world: I will not, though it were merely with the last quarter of the last joint of my little finger, I will not take part in what is known as official Christianity, which by suppression and by artifice gives the impression of being the Christianity of the New Testament; and upon my knees I thank my God that He has compassionately prevented me from becoming too far embroiled in it.

The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world?

If he is not supposed to be that, then he is a hypocrite, and the higher he climbs on this path, the more dreadful a hypocrite he is.

I had a hell of a time getting here, brother," I revealed when we had finished trading insincerities.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Beware, beware of those who care,' as some wise person said. Not that I'm suggesting there is anything wrong with caring. But as Granny Maud used to say, 'Fine words butter no parsnips,' and she might have added, 'Caring should be felt and not heard.

Honest people are a refuge: You know they mean what they say; you know they will not say one thing to your face and another behind your back; you know they will tell you when they think you have failed—and for this reason their praise cannot be mistaken for mere flattery.

A wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can be neatly avoidedby following a single precept in life: Do not lie