Quotes about Genuine

although the absurd, as a rule, predominates, and it seems impossible that the voice of the individual can ever penetrate through the chorus of the befooling and the befooled, there yet remains to the genuine works of every age a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence...

Tell someone you love them and mean it.

As there is no true religion where there is nothing else but affection, so there is no true religion where there is no religious affection.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.

The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us. We have one another only through Christ, but through Christ we do have one another, wholly, and for all eternity.

So many people come to church with the genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we're making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus. Are we determined to have nothing to do with all these people? They are convinced that it is not the Word Jesus himself that puts them off, but the superstructure of human, institutional, and doctrinal elements in our preaching.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

Isn't it evident we need more God and fewer gimmicks?

he was learning the rarity in a single life, of encountering true emotion.