Quotes About Sincerity

One of the advantages of -- of this -- is that dying men are allowed complete and brutal candor.

We'll crucify the insincere tonight

You're a big boy now; you'll never let her go, but that's just the kind of thing she ought to know. Tell her about it. Tell her everything you feel. Giver her every reason to accept that you're for real.

If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.

Eloquence.—It requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

Eloquence. There must be elements both pleasing and real, but what is pleasing must itself be drawn from what is true.

Il faut qu'on n'en puisse (dire), ni il est mathématicien, ni prédicateur, ni éloquent mais il est honnête homme. Cette qualité universelle me plaît seule.

You've gotta lotta nerve to say you are my friend When I was down you just stood there grinnin' You've gotta lotta nerve to say you have a helping hand to lend You just want to be on the side that's winnin' You see me on the street, you always act surprised Ya say how are you?, good luck, but ya don't mean it When you know as well as me you'd rather see me paralyzed Why don't you just come out once and scream it

I could say that I'd be faithful- I could say it one sweet, easy breath, but to you that would be cruelty and to me it surely would be death.

all is phony.

Don't let anybody tell you how great they are. It's all bullshit.

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.

Children are unconstrainedly sincere and not ashamed of the truth, while we, from fear of seeming backward, are ready to betray what's most dear, to praise the repulsive, and to say yes to the incomprehensible.

Los niños son sinceros, no tienen prejuicios y no se avergüenzan de la verdad, mientras nosotros, por miedo de parecer atrasados, estamos siempre dispuestos a traicionar lo que nos es más querido, a elogiar cosas que nos repugnan y aceptar otras que no comprendemos.

en büyük günah, yüreÄŸinin gerçekte hissettiÄŸini inkâr etmektir.

The world was full of people who would tell you what you wanted to hear. The valuable ones—the people worth holding on to—were those who told you what you needed to hear.

When I came in he threw himself on his knees before me and implored me to let him have a cat; that his salvation depended upon it.

This is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more.

Phillipa, my heart, my blood, my everything, will you for God's and my sake marry me?

Please say you'll marry me, Kit, because you're breaking my heart.

the simple way of speaking the truth is by not lying. If you do not lie, you are speaking the truth. But if you are trying to speak the truth and you do not know what truth is, then you are making your own truth. You say my truth is my truth and I am speaking the truth and you should listen to me. That is confusion. Do not lie. By not lying, you practice speaking the truth.