SINCERITY

Who may worship in your sanctuary, Lord? Who may enter your presence on your holy hill?

Those who lead blameless lives and do what is right, speaking the truth from sincere hearts.

Psalm 15:1–2

Fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and truth.

Joshua 24:14, nasb

Sincerity: to practice more than your tongue says.

A blush is one thing that can’t be counterfeited.

Sincerity—a silent address.

Oliver Goldsmith

Sincerity makes the least man to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Charles Spurgeon

Sincerity: being yourself in any direction.

The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast about it, and probably not even to be aware of it.

Henri Peyre

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

Theodore Roosevelt

Insincere praise is worse than no praise at all.

The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

Winston Churchill

Sincerity is the face of the soul.

The trouble with being sincere is that people will be inclined to think you’re just putting on an act.

A hypocrite never intends to be what he pretends to be.

Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

John Lancaster Spalding

Sincerity needs no witnesses.

Prayer must mean something to us if it is to mean anything to God.

When leading a public prayer, speak loudly enough to be heard of men and sincerely enough to be heard of God.

The most important thing in politics is sincerity, whether you mean it or not.

We are not sent into the world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

John Ruskin

What is uttered from the heart alone

Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Goethe

The devil is sincere, but he is sincerely wrong.

Billy Graham

Be sincere with your compliments. Most people can tell the difference between sugar and saccharine.

The sincere man suspects that he, too, is sometimes guilty of the faults he sees in others.

False doctrine is not right just because a person sincerely believes it.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

James Anthony Froude

Sincerity—an openness of heart.

François de La Rochefoucauld

I should say sincerity, a deep, great genuine sincerity, is the characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

Thomas Carlyle

The professional politician can sympathize with the professional advertiser. Both must resign themselves to a low public estimation of their veracity and sincerity.

Enoch Powell

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde