Quotes about Honesty

Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.

There is no literature in all the world that is more true to life and more honest than Psalms, for here we have warts-and-all religion. Every skeptical thought, every disappointing venture, every pain, every despair that we can face is lived through and integrated into a personal, saving relationship with God—a relationship that also has in it acts of praise, blessing, peace, security, trust and love.

Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.

A beautiful discipline of the soul can become sappy, mindless counsel, if we divorce it from the biblical roots of honesty, grief, lament, and genuine celebration from which it originates. No! If we are to live praising lives, robust lives of affirmation, we must live truly, honestly, and courageously. We cannot take shortcuts to the act of praising. We cannot praise prematurely.

David's isn't an ideal life but an actual life.

And then he prayed, "God, I'm asking for two things before I die; don't refuse me—Banish lies from my lips and liars from my presence. Give me enough food to live on, neither too much nor too little. If I'm too full, I might get independent, saying, 'God? Who needs him?' If I'm poor, I might steal and dishonor the name of my God.

Good poetry survives not when it is pretty or beautiful or nice but when it is true: accurate and honest.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

It's our hearts that tell us the truth of things, honey, and my heart has never betrayed me. Not ever.

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.