Quotes about Honesty

The fastest way to bring a wrecking ball to our skewed interpretations is through confession.

Sin can certainly be a cause of depression, but you must be careful about connecting the dots between the two. If you are being honest, you will always find sin in your life. Everyone does. That doesn't mean that sin caused your depression.

We pride ourselves on nothing but the courage to be trivial. For a person is simple in his striving for truth, and it is honest to admit this openly.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

I never did think the truth was a crime.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

I'm not one of those politicians, to my probably discredit, who thinks very far ahead. It has to feel right to me and not be about a careful plot and plan.

It was the strangest feeling, to be convicted but not condemned. God had torn him down but then had slowly built him back up. He had crushed him and then restored him. The more honest Clay became, the more God revealed to him the condition of his heart—a heart born into darkness, a heart that had trusted in the ways of the world.

We need people, Juliet, to show us our selfishness, to extract the ugliness that reveals itself in our hearts.