inner sincerity Quotes

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.

One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.

The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the natural way of living.