Quotes about Genuineness

We will never feel loved until we drop the act, until we're willing to show our true selves to the people around us.

Prayer is the peculiarity of all real Christians now. They pray, for they tell God their wants, their feelings, their desires, and their fears; and they mean what they say. The nominal Christian may repeat prayers, and good prayers too, but he goes no further.

Never be content to wear a cloak of religion. Be all that you profess. Though you may err, be real. Though you may stumble, be true. Keep this principle continually before your eyes, and it will be well with your soul throughout your journey from grace to glory.

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.

People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

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

C. S. Lewis wrote that in prayer we must "lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Now I see a few campuses that are honest

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

Being from a Christian family doesn't make you a Christian any more than sitting in a garage —