Quotes about Authenticity
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.
— Brian Tracy
Sorrow makes men sincere.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
— AW Tozer
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
— Henry David Thoreau
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
— CS Lewis
Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.
— Carmelo Anthony
I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?
— Thomas Merton
For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
— DH Lawrence
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.
— JC Ryle
Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.
— Charles Spurgeon