Quotes About Sincerity

To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

But authentic worship also has depth.

Neither will it out of my mind but that that man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world; for so surely as Judas designed the world in becoming religious, so surely did he also sell religion and his Master for the same.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart.

Sincerity is the first casualty of capitalism. We

Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.

For, until men feel that they owe everything to God, that they are cherished by his paternal care, and that he is the author of all their blessings, so that nought is to be looked for away from him, they will never submit to him in voluntary obedience; nay, unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.

the only way the false teachers can make sail against us is by appearing to be endowed with the Spirit of God. But

looked for away from him, they will never submit to him in voluntary obedience; nay, unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.

See, then, the nature of pure and genuine religion. It consists in faith, united with a serious fear of God, comprehending a voluntary reverence, and producing legitimate worship agreeable to the injunctions of the law. And this requires to be the more carefully remarked, because men in general render to God a formal worship, but very few truly reverence him; while great ostentation in ceremonies is universally displayed, but sincerity of heart is rarely to be found.

Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

all those who go around draped with a false sanctimoniousness do it by the devil's prodding; because no one can worship God rightly with outward ceremonies, for true worshipers adore him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). Secondly

All is pretense, but we must be careful what we pretend to be, because that is what we must become.

clever wasn't the same as honest. Ferrier

A person is better off for having performed sincere religious acts even when they rest on false premises.

there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.

It is tenderness that is the real you. All of the rest is just packaging.

You are real only where you are given to love.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

Send me nor this, nor that, to increase my store, But swear thou think'st I love thee, and no more.

When people try to hide things from you, they shouldn't be nice to you. They ought to ignore you or throw a pie at you or do something other than smile.