What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

The inner, the real and the unseen are irrelevant in today's world. All that counts is appearance, and the world of consumerism has lost no time in catering to every need, and then creating even more, in this burgeoning market of the appearance.

In the same way, metrics can record the frequency of our church attendance, the regularity of our Bible reading and the exact amount of our tithing, but they can never gauge the genuineness of any of them, or whether they are any better than "the noise of the solemn assemblies" against which the prophets fulminated.

Being general, the categories never address us as individuals. At best our individuality is lost in the generality. At worst, it is contradicted and denied. Such categories force us to lie on their Procrustean bed, and anything about us that doesn't fit they lop off. They trim the picture of our personalities to fit their mass-produced frames.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.

Be you because everyone else is taken!

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.

My vision of God is dependent upon the condition of my character. My character determines whether or not truth can even be revealed to me.