Sincerity Quotes - Page 22

• To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

  Simone Weil

  Lying, Ideas, Evil

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• An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.

  Peter Kreeft

  Listening, World, Care

  Peter Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli (2009). “Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics”, p.11, InterVarsity Press

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• The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of tolerance, love, and compassion are the same.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Religious, Buddhist

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• Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Taken, Soul

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

  Jane Austen

  Presence Of Mind, Tongue, Sometimes

  Jane Austen (2015). “Persuasion”, p.188, Jane Austen

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• As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.

  Stephen Fry

  Ambition, Wrestling, Worry

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.152, Soho Press

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• Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

  Halldór Laxness

  Lying, Facts, Remember

  Halldór Laxness (1972). “Christianity at Glacier”

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• Right, then, mate, terribly sorry for my unspeakable rudeness, and I do beg your pardon. I can only say that it was caused by my natural affront to the notion of her as my sister. Since I'll be shagging her tonight, you can imagine how I'd be distressed at the thought of rogering my sibling" "You shmuck! The only thing you'll be shagging tonight is yourself!" "You wanted sincerity, well, luv, I was sincere.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sorry, Sibling, Tonight

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• When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.

  Frank Herbert

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.260, Penguin

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• It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.

  Alan Lightman

  Kissing, Past, World

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.30, Vintage

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• No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Death, Kindness, Losing A Loved One

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 04, 2012

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• ‎"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Selling, Salvation

  "Billy Graham: His Life and Influence". Book by David Aikman (p. 37), October 9, 2007.

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• Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still "boys." But that is your fate if you do your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt.

  Aravind Adiga

  Jobs, Honesty, Fate

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Why lily?” “It’s the most sacred and beautiful of all flowers in Egypt. They bloom in mud and shine in the darkness like a gift from the gods to remind you that no matter how bad something is, it will get better. That no matter how dark the night, the light will come for you. If you partake of them, they have the power to calm and soothe you, and to heal your wounds.” When he spoke his next words, they were laced with emotion and sincerity. “You are, and will always be, my sšn.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Flower, Dark

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• Who wants a bag of bones?” he said, with absolute sincerity. “I don’t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I’m bedding.

  Charlaine Harris

  Hurt, Bags, Want

  Charlaine Harris (2010). “Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.146, Penguin

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• She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Selfish

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)”, p.17, GENERAL PRESS

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• Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.

  Jack Canfield

  Art, Passion, Garden

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• Beauty is sincerity.There are so many different ways someone can be beautiful.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Fearless, Different

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• If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Moving, People

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• one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others

  Allen Ginsberg

  Writing, Self, Recognition

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• Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Ideas, Oneself

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• He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.

  E. M. Forster

  Crush, Real, Adventure

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.273, 谷月社

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• After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Memories, Museums, Individual Happiness

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.462, Faber & Faber

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• But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God's love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Mercy Of God, May

  Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

  Dorothy Parker

  Simple, Lakes, Effort

  New Yorker, 25 Feb. 1928

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