Quotes about Genuine
As there is no true religion where there is nothing else but affection, so there is no true religion where there is no religious affection.
— Jonathan Edwards
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.
— Rick Warren
There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us. We have one another only through Christ, but through Christ we do have one another, wholly, and for all eternity.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
So many people come to church with the genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we're making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus. Are we determined to have nothing to do with all these people? They are convinced that it is not the Word Jesus himself that puts them off, but the superstructure of human, institutional, and doctrinal elements in our preaching.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.
— Rick Warren
If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.
— Jerry Bridges
What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
— Oprah Winfrey
Isn't it evident we need more God and fewer gimmicks?
— Jim Cymbala
he was learning the rarity in a single life, of encountering true emotion.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
— John Wooden
In his book Vision America, Aubrey Malphurs asserted that much of the perceived church growth in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s was actually due primarily to the redistribution of believers, not genuine church growth. He stated, "The problems of the church in the 1980s carry over into the 1990s. The church as a whole continues to experience decline and the unchurched increase."
— Ed Stetzer