Quotes about Authenticity

And who can give to another the things which he has not himself?

Why act the part of a Jew when you're Greek? Don't you know why it is that a person is called a Jew, Syrian, or Egyptian? And when we see someone hesitating between two creeds, we're accustomed to say, 'He is no Jew, but is merely acting the part.' But when he assumes the frame of mind of one who has been baptized * and has made his choice, then he really is a Jew, and is called by that name.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

I've only had success when I'm not trying to. It's that weird thing where if you're trying to impress a girl, you're not going to impress her. But if you aren't trying to impress a girl, you'll probably impress her because you're not trying.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast.

I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.