Quotes about Authenticity

you have to realize that you don't have someone else's life and your never going to. You better start loving the one you got. Embrass the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do what you want to do with me".

It's nice to compliment people on what they're wearing, but don't make insincere compliments.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

Speak the truth and shame the Devil.

What do others see when they look at your life? What do those who know you best say about you—your spouse, your children, your friends, your coworkers? Do they see inconsistencies in any area of your life—money, relationships, speech, possessions?

Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.

If the church is acceptable to this present age and is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.

"Being" is far more important than "doing." When we are what we should be inside, we will bring forth fruit.

There are things which money cannot buy; which no music can bring; which no social position can claim; which no personal influence can assure; and which no eloquence can command.

A false religion is like the imitation of high fashion. The very presence of counterfeits proves the existence of the real. There would be no imitations without a genuine product. God's original design has always had imitators and counterfeits!

It seems to me there's an awful lot of trouble in the world that somehow wouldn't exist if all the people who sing such songs went and lived them out.