Quotes about Authenticity

Real fellowship happens when people get honest about who they are and what is happening in their lives.

Vulnerability is an endearing quality; we are naturally drawn to humble people.

God is pleased when our worship is authentic. When Jesus said you must "worship in spirit," he wasn't referring to the Holy Spirit, but to your spirit. Made in God's image, you are a spirit that resides in a body, and God designed your spirit to communicate with him. Worship is your spirit responding to God's Spirit.

If you live for the approval of others, you will die by their rejection.

opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked.

It's important to embrace several truths about yourself and those around you, beginning with this one: who you AREN'T isn't interesting.

Be honest about your joy.

To fully appreciate the Bible, you have to let it be what it is.

We need you to be you. We don't need a second anybody. We need the first you.

Some things that religious people make a big deal of are rather pointless. Avoid the insanity.

What happens is our lives become so heavily oriented around the expectations of others that we become more and more like them and less and less like ourselves. We become split. I was split. I had this person I knew I was made to be, yet it was mixed in with all of these other ... people. As the lights were turned on, I saw I had all of this guilt and shame because I wasn't measuring up to the image of the perfect person I had in my head.

Some things you do for you. You do them because it gives you great satisfaction and it puts a smile on your face and that's it. And that's fine. It's not just fine, it's necessary. It makes you a better person, it fills your soul, it opens you up to life in its fullness. So don't apologize for it, enjoy it.