Quotes about Authenticity

If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.