Quotes About Sincerity

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.

Look as a painted man is no man and as painted fire is no fire so a cold prayer is no prayer.

At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

Your relationship with Allah, depends on the heart being clean.

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

This above all - to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night follows day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

A very honest woman but something given to lie

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

No legacy is so rich as honestly.

Lear: So young, and so untender?Cordelia: So young, my lord, and true.

Let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen.

Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter.

It oft falls out,To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.

I humbly do beseech you of your pardonFor too much loving you.

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,He says he does, being then most flattered.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:I am no orator, as Brutus is;But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man.

O! never say that I was false of heart,Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify.