Quotes about Authenticity

After much reflection—suppose it was a lie? What then? Was it such a great matter? Aren't we always acting lies? Then why not tell them?

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.

Everybody lies--every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception--and purposely. Even in sermons--but that is a platitude.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.

you will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile,laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you

But the judgement of God is upon the church as never before. If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust.

What you're saying may get you a foundation grant but it won't get you into the kingdom of truth.

No good can ever come of falsehood

Truth that has merely been learned is like an artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose; it adheres to us only because it is put on. But truth acquired by thought of our own is like a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us.

whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.