Quotes about Authenticity

Our whole journey into authentic masculinity centers around those cool-of-the-day talks with God. Simple questions change hassles to adventures; the events of our lives become opportunities for initiation.

And he wants you to be utterly yourself, with him.

I never tell lies, but I am a savage.

We're all living in the shadow of that infamous icon, "The Proverbs 31 Woman," whose life is so busy I wonder, when does she have time for friendships, for taking walks, or reading good books? Her light never goes out at night? When does she have sex? Somehow she has sanctified the shame most women live under, biblical proof that yet again we don't measure up. Is that supposed to be godly—that sense that you are a failure as a woman?

Most messages for men ultimately fail. The reason is simple: they ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart—his real passions—and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.

When we begin to offer not merely our gifts but our true selves, that is when we become powerful.

This is every man's deepest fear: to be exposed, to be found out, to be discovered as an impostor, and not really a man.

I don't trust a man who hasn't suffered; I don't let a man get close to me who hasn't faced his wound.

Let people feel the weight of who you are, and let them deal with it.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.