Quotes about Honesty

Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you'll lie about bigger things.

Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding. PROVERBS 23:23

It's hard to be something that you're not. It's hard to keep everyone happy, wear different masks, and pretend, depending on who you're with. You know what's easy: being you, being real, being vulnerable.

You don't have to hide. You don't have to pretend, worry about what people will think. Everyone is dealing with something. There's no shame in saying, "I need help. I'm struggling; I'm hurting; I'm broken.

Your soul may feel broken, wounded, hurt from mistakes you've made or from what someone else did. But your soul can be restored. When you get honest with yourself and you release what you need to release—guilt, worry, anger, jealousy—then healing will come. Joy will come.

Suspicion kills friendship.

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

I can't very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.