We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity

God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at

Failure is the mother of success mother. I learned from that passion and sincerity.

It feels as if the world has acknowledged and accepted our sincerity.

Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

God tests the soul’s sincerity by trials. When brought into strait places, we are compelled to decide for or against God. There is no such thing as remaining neutral. All must take sides, either for Christ or against Him.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.