Quotes about Authenticity

Our mistake is to think that following Jesus consists in loving our enemies, going the "second mile," turning the other cheek, suffering patiently and hopefully—while living the rest of our lives just as everyone around us does.

Fact 1: It is okay to be who you are wherever you are.

Fact 2: What is true about you as a person is also true about your work.

And we and the public are constantly confronted with professing Christians who, to say the least, do not love one another, but may clearly hate and despise or be indifferent to those around them.

So the idea conveyed is an absolutely fatal one - that to follow him simply means to try to behave as he did when he was on the spot, under pressure or persecution or in the spotlight. There is no realization that what he did in such cases was, in large and essential measure, the natural outflow of the life he lived when not on the spot.

Your tongue follows correctness; your heart follows truth.

One of the greatest weaknesses in our teaching and leadership today is that we spend so much time trying to get people to do things good people are supposed to do, without changing what they really believe.

We cannot behave "on the spot" as he did and taught if in the rest of our time we live as everybody else does.

Great part of our growth includes disengaging from the expectations of others.

Too often our "love" for family members is domination in disguise.

Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality; listening to our emotions ushers us into reality. And reality is where we meet God.

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.