Quotes about Genuine

I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?

There is a greater difference between the genuine Christian and the deceived professing Christian than there is between a living man and a corpse. None need remain in doubt if they will honestly measure themselves by the Holy Word of God.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

But there was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations.

And this is the simple truth--that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.

Not to pursue our joy in ministry is not to pursue the profit of our people...Begrudging service does not qualify as genuine love.

No value is attached to a mere profession of faith in Christ; only the love which is shown by works is counted genuine. Yet it is love alone which in the sight of Heaven makes any act of value.—The Faith I Live By,

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Worshiping Me well transforms you— changing you more and more into the one I designed you to be. Genuine worship requires that you know Me as I truly am. You cannot comprehend Me perfectly or completely, but you can strive to know Me accurately, as I am revealed in the Bible. By deepening your understanding of Me, you are transformed and I am glorified—in beautiful worship.