Quotes about Sincerity
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me.
— Henry David Thoreau
Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives;
— Henry David Thoreau
He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.
— Herman Melville
What was sad in the world he did not superficially gainsay; what was glad in it he did not cynically slur; and all which was to him personally enjoyable, he gratefully took to his heart.
— Herman Melville
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.
— Mother Angelica
A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.
— Khalil Gibran
Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
— Francis Chan
When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.
— Frank Sinatra
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
— Teresa of Avila