Genuine Quotes

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God.

In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.

The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers

Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.

The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.

Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.

Today, I bought a pastrami sandwich: $13.75. Walked back out in the street - genuine Rolex watch: six bucks.

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

Speaking as an actress, I wish all actors would be more like Duke Wayne. And speaking as a person, it would be nice if all people could be honest and as genuine as he is. This is a real man.

It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.

Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.

To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service.

A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.

Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge.

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act.

Republicans can also point to an alternate path. They can draw upon genuine experts to explain what should be done.

If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?

Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.

This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

My service to humanity Is my real opportunity To prove my genuine love For God and God alone.