Quotes About Sincerity

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

All teachers of Scripture conclude that the essence of prayer is simply the lifting up of the heart to God. But if this is so, it follows that everything else that doesn't lift up the heart to God is not prayer. Therefore, singing, talking, and whistling without this lifting up of your heart to God are as much like prayer as scarecrows in the garden are like people. The name and appearance might be there, but the essence is missing.

an enemy is not more baneful than a flatterer.

I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

I've figured out there's a difference between the meaning of the word 'real' and the meaning of the word 'true.

If a man writes clearly enough," said Hemingway, "anyone can see if he fakes.

The world is filled with too many of us who are inclined to indicate our love with an announcement or declaration. True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time.

Certainly the best way for us to show our love…is by taking the time to prove it hour by hour and day by day. Our expressions of love and comfort are empty if our actions don't match.

truth is beautiful, even when it is ugly. I

Some people are too good to be real; I'm too real to be good.

However far away, I will always love you. However long I stay, I will always love you. Whatever words I say, I will always love you; I will always love you.

Dear children, lets not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions.

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

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

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.