Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.
But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency).
There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?
“God,” she cried, “what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you be prepared for that? Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.”
To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.
Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and redemptive. The courage it took to write this story is challenged only by the courage it must have taken to live it. I sit in awe of such unflinching honesty. LOVE JUNKIE is memoir at its very best.
People love honesty. Honesty is medicinal, I think. It makes people feel less lonely in the world.
or simply:
