Quotes about Authenticity

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Hypocrite reader — my fellow — my brother!

i can nourish myself on nothing but truth

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

For how could I justly be blamed and prohibited from loving false things, if it were false that I loved them?

Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to...use words.

Preach the Gospel, use words when necessary.

There is no use in walking anywhere to preach if your walking isn't your preaching.

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.

If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.