Quotes about Authenticity

Why act the part of a Jew when you're Greek? Don't you know why it is that a person is called a Jew, Syrian, or Egyptian? And when we see someone hesitating between two creeds, we're accustomed to say, 'He is no Jew, but is merely acting the part.' But when he assumes the frame of mind of one who has been baptized * and has made his choice, then he really is a Jew, and is called by that name.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

We tap into something when we're honest about what's going on in our lives.

The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.

Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality. Listening to our emotions ushers us into reality. And reality is where we meet God. . . . Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice. . .