“And I remember that hiding the truth doesn’t stop things from being true. Not talking about things doesn’t stop them from happening. Pretending that a thing is something else doesn’t change its true nature.”
Source: It's Not Like It's a Secret
“Willingly embracing the emptiness of the tomb is more difficult for those of us in places of privilege. We have so much “stuff,” so many activities and endless sources of distraction and busyness to fill any potential emptiness, that our pretense is better fortified against any attempts to expose it, whether through circumstance or intentionality. This is why, in part, Jesus speaks so strongly against the love of money. He did not demonize money itself, but recognized how easily we become enslaved to a different master, in bondage to mammon, instead of following Christ in loving service of God and others.”
Source: Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
“Awareness is not a school quiz that can be passed by reading and memorizing some facts. It’s a journey that is fueled by our intent to be open, honest, and free.”
Source: Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life
“Lidell's lips flattened. "You are a most outspoken young man."
"I like to think I'm honest.”
Source: Cleftlocke
“Why we don't value intellectual honesty beyond easy answers is beyond me.”
Source: Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
“Watch yourself, Nikolai," Mal said softly. " Princes bleed just like other men.”
Source: Siege and Storm
“In an attempt to fix a crooked world, she broke herself, her heart, and her sanity.”
Source: The Zenas Cure
“Lies charged compound interest. You tried to fix what you had broken before you were found out, making little payments as you could afford to, just enough to keep the whole weight of it at bay. But the lie kept growing and growing. You could never pay it off, not without losing everything. The cost was total.”
Source: Unbecoming
“He seemed about to go on in this strain, which was a favorite of his, but then recollected himself, and said wryly, "I reveal myself more with every word. I am honest, Natalie, and sometimes ashamed of it."
"I always am, when I'm honest," Natalie said.
"Are you?" he asked with interest. "Do you know when you're being honest?"
"Usually," Natalie said. "If I'm surprised at myself for saying it thinking it, it's honest.”
Source: Hangsaman
“My best room, however, my withdrawing room, always ready for company, on whose carpet the sun rarely fell, was the pine wood behind my house. Thither in summer days, when distinguished guests came, I took them, and a priceless domestic swept the floor and dusted the furniture and kept the things in order.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods