Quotes about Transparency

I have allowed myself to believe that to be stripped of all the props and pretensions and accolades and approvals is to be stripped of the best parts of me. When in reality what's best about me comes to the forefront when I'm closest to the way God created me, naked and unashamed. To stand naked and unashamed is the way of the garden life.

Lies flee in the presence of truth.

Let people feel the weight of who you are, and let them deal with it.

Image is what people think we are; integrity is whar we really are.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

C. S. Lewis wrote that in prayer we must "lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.

Critics of home-schooling hate the idea of home-schooling and the freedom from the government school monopoly that it represents. Their attacks on academic success are just a transparent attempt to divert attention from their own failings.

You've been getting it. Big fat doses of the truth. it's ugly, isn't it? Sometimes. And you still want it? Always... I'm not afraid. Besides, God is my shield. You don't have to be.

Now I see a few campuses that are honest

The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, — 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'

A rainbow is not afraid of showing its true colors because it knows it is beautiful inside out.