Quotes about Authenticity

Mr. Feltner—who would not be "Mat" to me for a long time—turned to me and stuck out his hand. "Mr. Crow, I'm Mat Feltner. I'm glad to know you. I knew your mother's people. I remember the Daggets very well." There was nothing glancing or sidling about the way he looked at you. He looked right through your eyes, right into you, as a man looks at you who is willing for you to look right into him.

He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear. Cash

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Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is the best of all

You did not become born again or receive the Holy Spirit through a bottle of oil or a mantle. So you don't need them to live your life!

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.

when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.