Quotes about Realness

Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Throughout the Bible, in fact, God shows a marked preference for "real" people over "good" people.

The secret is authenticity. The reason people fail is because they're pretending to be something they're not.

As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.

Nothing can compensate for a lack of authenticity.

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Someone once asked me, How are Christians supposed to act? Christianity is not an act; it is a real thing. We cannot be right with God and not be real.

I could never put my finger on her realness. She was so pretty and so quick that even when she had just awakened, her eyes full of sleep and hair tousled, I thought she looked just like the Virgin Mary. But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other's lack of understanding? Mother

I could never put my finger on her realness. She was so pretty and so quick that even when she had just awakened, her eyes full of sleep and hair tousled, I thought she looked just like the Virgin Mary. But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other's lack of understanding?

When we meet people flesh to flesh we meet people mess to mess.