Quotes about Authenticity

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

For most of my life, I've felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can't expect me to be someone I'm not.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere.

Isn't it evident we need more God and fewer gimmicks?

pity parties never result in authentic benefit or blessing; they just enlarge, deepen, and intensify the wound by repeatedly exposing it. At the very least, these kinds of discussions with others will keep you focused on your hurts instead of focused on your Healer.

As painful and devastating as wounds inflicted by God's people can be, they have made me more determined to live out what I believe authentically. I am deeply motivated to know God. I want to know Him as He truly is, not through the distorted reflection of those who called themselves by His name.