Quotes about Authenticity
Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Love is real, real is love.
— John Lennon
Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
— NT Wright
Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.
— Thomas Merton
We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.
— Audre Lorde
If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.
— Brennan Manning
Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .
— Timothy Keller
Our opinions are what we'll be known for; our love is what we'll be remembered for
— Bob Goff
When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
— Bob Goff
True love can't be bought.
— Jon Jones
And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.
— DH Lawrence
When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
— Francis Chan