Quotes about Authenticity
Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.
— Frederick Buechner
All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
— Charles Spurgeon
I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.
— CS Lewis
You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.
— Rick Warren
God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
— RC Sproul
Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
— AW Tozer
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
— Charles Spurgeon
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
— George Bernard Shaw
You're only as sick as your secrets.
— Rick Warren
If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.
— Oswald Chambers
I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson