Quotes about Honesty

Jesus is his name. There's no point in pretending that his name is Herbert.

Love can't cover over the sins we cover up…If you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up.

Discipling in the gospel means that sometimes you lead the way in confessing weakness or sin. By doing so, you demonstrate what it looks like not to find your justification in yourself, but in Christ. And so you live transparently and honestly.

we must refuse to speak in sanitized clinical euphemisms like calling adulteries "affairs," fornication "dating," and perverts "partners" because God uses frank words for deplorable sin so we will feel its sickness without anesthesia.

Politicians tell people what they want to hear, prophets tell people what they need to hear.

Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

What have you to confess now? It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.

To underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.