Quotes about Genuineness

The kingdom belongs to people who aren't trying to look good or impress anybody, even themselves. They are not plotting how they can call attention to themselves, worrying about how their actions will be interpreted or wondering if they will get gold stars for their behavior.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life." Oswald Chambers

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

There is no subterfuge in you, Miss Adeline. Why is that?" Color came and went in her cheeks. "Everyone has layers. Even me." He leaned closer as his son neared and allowed a curl to wrap his finger. "I look forward to peeling back those layers.

There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.

In the same way, metrics can record the frequency of our church attendance, the regularity of our Bible reading and the exact amount of our tithing, but they can never gauge the genuineness of any of them, or whether they are any better than "the noise of the solemn assemblies" against which the prophets fulminated.

The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's

but repentance is faith's fruit, and there is no more reality in a profession of faith than there is reality of repentance accompanying it.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

A beau needs to love you for who you are, not who you're tryin' to be.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within