Quotes about Sincerity
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
— Victor Hugo
Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people
— Anonymous
Don't be consistent but be simply true.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.
— Chris Tomlin
Why must one love rarely to love well?
— Albert Camus
I advocate speaking words of love with all the sincerity that can be mustered, as frequently as possible.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.
— Ronald Reagan
But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?
— George Eliot
Inauthenticity among the ranks of those claiming to be Christians can become an almost insurmountable barrier to belief.
— Bill Hybels
God doesn't want us to pile up impressive phrases. He doesn't want us to use words without thinking about their meaning. He wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father—authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly. I heard a man do this once when I least expected it.
— Bill Hybels