Quotes about Genuine

Prayer, it is rightly said, is the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.

You don't lose friends, because real friends can never be lost. You lose people masquerading as friends, and you're better for it.

Mr. Feltner—who would not be "Mat" to me for a long time—turned to me and stuck out his hand. "Mr. Crow, I'm Mat Feltner. I'm glad to know you. I knew your mother's people. I remember the Daggets very well." There was nothing glancing or sidling about the way he looked at you. He looked right through your eyes, right into you, as a man looks at you who is willing for you to look right into him.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

Of course I want to look nice and have a good appearance, but more than the outer shell, I want people to want to be around me for my heart.

Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously.

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.

I sat there thinking about how all real music has to be born in the human spirit. Well, these ballads surely had been. There was something childlike and basic about them, an absence of sham or pretense.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

There's a lot of pretense out there. It can be exhausting. When people see something genuine, even if it's something as simple as two people actually being friends, actually enjoying what they're doing, or actually standing up for each other, that translates in a big way.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.