Quotes About Sincerity

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity

Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.

Gratitude is a miracle of its own recognition. It brings out a sense of appreciation and sincerity of a being.

True understanding involves sincere honesty and holistic, deep listening without the political corruption of evil power players. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my book K.H. trilogy

I don't know if it was the cold sincerity in my voice or the shock of being straddled by a wild, mud covered woman, but he didn't try to argue. "Give me your ring. Now.

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

It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but actually to be one. Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name.

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.

When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn't answered you, He plans in your favor.

The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.