Genuine Quotes - Page 2

• It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine faith, great faith is revealed only when we serve and trust God in the hard times, the times of suffering, loss, and opposition. That's the kind of faith that makes the world sit up and take notice.

  Ray Stedman

  Jobs, Book, Loss

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• I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested.

  Michael J. Fox

  People, Vision, Want

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring and concern others have given us.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Caring

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• Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

  Timothy Zahn

  Heart, Individuality, Spirit

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• The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Truth

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Money, Tired

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons”, p.772, The Floating Press

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• Living
  consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and
  responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the
  moment.

  Sidney Poitier

  Honesty, African American, Live In The Moment

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• There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Stupidity, Inability

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• Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

  Walter Benjamin

  Girl, Baby, Book

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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

  Alice Miller

  Forgiveness, Anger, Doe

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.248, Macmillan

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• Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.

  Martial

  Knowing, Sorrow

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• I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.

  Dante Hall

  Coaches

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• I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a line... I like to find out where the line might be and then cross it deliberately, and then make the audience happy about crossing the line with me.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Crossing The Line, Uptown

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• I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.

  Audrey Hepburn

  People, Thank God, World

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• Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mean, Different, Needs

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• Genuine harmony must come from the heart. It cannot come from the barrel of a gun.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Gun, Harmony

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• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Catholic, May, Want

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• There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.

  Howard Thurman

  Waiting, Sound, Finding Your Path

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• To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.267, Cambridge University Press

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• I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Pockets, Handkerchiefs

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.221, University of Illinois Press

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• No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Nature, Men

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• Despair is the only genuine atheism.

  Jean Paul

  Despair, Atheism

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• There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.

  Menander

  Wise, Wisdom, Love You

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• Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Stealing, Importance

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.226, The Floating Press

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