Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.

candor.

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

Woe is me, I am ruined. For I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips” (Isaiah 6:5). Isaiah was one of the most godly men who ever...

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a...

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

For the plaintiffs it comes down to a question of candor and does the jury think the defendant was being honest and putting all its cards on the table. If they think they’re trying to...

He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward.” Jefferson Davis’s future wife describing...

Only strong women, and they seem to be rare, can handle a frank and direct woman who doesn’t sweet-talk or need others to nerve her. You can identify the easily intimidated because they need a...

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk.

Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.

I grin at the fierce burn in my legs, in my chest.Using pain to relieve pain. It doesn’t make much sense.

Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.

I’m not abnegation, I’m not dauntless, I am Divergent

I don’t make people comfortable but that’s what couches are for.

Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

Instead of fleeing God scrutiny, David welcomed it. It’s like he was saying, “Look God, since I can’t hide from you, since you know my very thoughts before I think them, I want you to...

The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.