Quotes About Christian Authenticity

#1. All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

Samuel Beckett

#2. All of the important acts of creation and destruction involve the issuance of words and the application of signature.

Bryant McGill

#3. A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.

Oscar Romero

#4. The gift of literature is the grace of knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. I watch an awful lot of television, and I get a little tired of what I see ... We have about six television sets in our house, and it's less expensive for me to do a television series than it is for me to throw them all out.

Bill Cosby

#6. Girls ... only lift the veil over your body to the spouse who is worthy to see the glory of that unveiled mystery.

Jason Evert

#7. You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face.

Jason Evert

#8. I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.

Alexander Hamilton

#9. The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#10. Anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

Carl Jung

#11. Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.

Kevin DeYoung

#12. Dulcibus est verbis mollis alendus amor
which means
By soft words must love be fostered

Janet Aylmer

#13. He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

John Steinbeck

#14. So I'm all of love that could make it today.

Shel Silverstein

#15. Although Martin Luther's theological message was couched as an exhortation to all Christian people, his frame of reference, the human experiences on which he drew and his emotional sympathies, or almost entirely German.

Andrew Pettegree

#16. When the author admits to Christians that he was not a Christian himself, he says their dialogue became distant and rehearsed, like a pitch for Ginsu knives.

Kevin Roose

#17. I walk into so many places where Christians are gathered and I get all excited, only to find that the fellowship among these Believers is dead! There is no openness, no authenticity.

Alan De Jager

#18. From all the graces of my homeland
I chose only your savage heart.

Pablo Neruda

#19. Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To love is to break out of the black hole of the ego and say, "My life is about you".

Bishop Robert Barron

#20. I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.

Rob Bell