Quotes About Sincerity

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.

Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, without the sweet concurrence of the heart.

Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

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

Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life, for all things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.

Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in heaven will mind it; And the finest phrase falls dead, if there is no feeling behind it.

Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.

When we make self the end of prayer, it is not worship but self-seeking.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

We are betrayed by what is false within.

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.