Quotes about Sincerity
Never start your gratitude moment with an unthankful heart or out of necessity. Gratitude must be sincere.
— Mensah Oteh
Really," "really and truly," those code words which barely conceal a lie.)
— Amos Oz
Absolute surrender to God—was sincere, then it must mean absolute surrender to the divine love to fill me. I must be a servant of love to love every child of God around me. "The fruit of the Spirit is love.
— Andrew Murray
5 And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
— Scott Hahn
Neither will it out of my mind but that that man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world; for so surely as Judas designed the world in becoming religious, so surely did he also sell religion and his Master for the same.
— John Bunyan
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
— John Bunyan
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
— John Bunyan
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart.
— John Bunyan
See, then, the nature of pure and genuine religion. It consists in faith, united with a serious fear of God, comprehending a voluntary reverence, and producing legitimate worship agreeable to the injunctions of the law. And this requires to be the more carefully remarked, because men in general render to God a formal worship, but very few truly reverence him; while great ostentation in ceremonies is universally displayed, but sincerity of heart is rarely to be found.
— John Calvin
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
— John Calvin
All those who go around draped with a false sanctimoniousness do it by the devil's prodding; because no one can worship God rightly with outward ceremonies, for true worshipers adore him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24).
— John Calvin
And swearNo whereLives a woman true, and fair.
— John Donne