Honesty Quotes

Quotes on "Honesty"

T10A2 "It sounds insane when it is stated with perfect honesty, but the ego never looks upon what it does with perfect honesty."

T10B1 "Be willing to judge it with perfect honesty."

T12C4 "In honesty, is it not harder for you to say "I love" than "I hate?""

T13G6 "Be glad it is undone, for, when you look at it in simple honesty, it IS undone."

T24C10 "Leave all illusions of yourself OUTSIDE this place, to which you come in hope and honesty."

T30B7 "And you can say in perfect honesty, "I WANT another way to look at this.""

T30F8 "Be speeded on your way by honesty, and let not your experiences here deceive in retrospect."

T30F8 "Do not look back except in honesty."

W24L3 "The exercises for today require much more honesty than you are accustomed to using."

W66L9 "We need great honesty today."

W80L6 "The means is simple honesty."

W91L8 "Ask this in honesty, and then devote several minutes to allowing your mistaken thoughts about your attributes to be corrected, and their opposites to take their place."

W134L8 "The strength of pardon is its honesty, which is so uncorrupted that it sees illusions as illusions, not as truth."

W134L17 "If you have been practicing thus far in willingness and honesty, you will begin to sense a lifting up, a lightening of weight across your chest, a deep and certain feeling of relief."

W183L2 "Yet who in simple honesty, without defensiveness and self deception, would deny he understands the words we speak?"

W185L6 "And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given in a form each mind which seeks for it in honesty can understand."

W360FL6 "We come in honesty to Him and say we did not understand, and ask Him to help us to learn His lessons through the Voice of His own Teacher."

M5C1 "Only the trusting can afford honesty, for only they can see its value."

M5C1 "Honesty does not apply only to what you say."

M5C2 "The peace of mind which the advanced teachers of God experience is largely due to their perfect honesty."

M5C2 "They choose in perfect honesty, sure of their choice of themselves."

M5D1 "Judgment destroys honesty and shatters trust."

M16A3 "You will be judged, and judged in fairness and in honesty."

S1C3 "It is possible at this level to continue to ask for things of this world in various forms, but it is also possible to ask for qualities such as honesty or goodness, and particularly for forgiveness for the many sources of guilt that inevitably underlie any prayer of need."

S1F1 "All little gods it gladly lays aside, not in resentment, but in honesty and recognition that they did not serve."

Quotes on "Honest"

T4D19 "Be very honest with yourselves about this, for we must hide nothing from each other."

T4E9 "You, Helen, have been more honest that Bill in really trying to see whom your ego has hurt, and also in trying to change your mind about them."

T5I7 "Second, although he misinterpreted what the Holy Spirit told him, or better, reminded him of, he was too honest to deny more than he had to, to keep his fear in tolerable bounds, as he perceived the situation."

T5I9 "The knowledge plagued his belief in his own thought-system at every turn, because he was both an honest man and a healer."

T8H5 "A more honest statement would be as follows: Those who WANT the ego are predisposed to defend it."

T11F11 "It is merely the result of an honest appraisal of what you have taught yourselves, and of the learning outcomes which have resulted."

T12D3 "An open mind is more honest than this."

T14D2 "The search for truth is but the honest searching out of everything that INTERFERES with truth."

T24C1 "Against the littleness you see in him you stand as tall and stately, clean and honest, pure and unsullied by comparison with what you see."

T25I10 "What honest witnesses could THEY call forth, to speak on his behalf?"

T27E5 "An HONEST question is a learning tool which asks for something that you do NOT know."

T27E5 "And no-one in a conflict state is free to ASK this question, for he does not WANT an honest answer, where the conflict ENDS."

T27E6 "Only within the Holy Instant can an honest question honestly be asked."

T27E6 "An honest answer asks NO sacrifice, because it answers questions truly asked."

T27H10 "An honest choice could NEVER be perceived as one in which the choice is split between a tiny you and an enormous world, with DIFFERENT dreams about the truth in you."

W9L3 "Be sure you are honest with yourself in making this distinction."

W133L13 "We will attempt to reach this state today, with self-deception laid aside, and with an honest willingness to value but the truly valuable and the real."

W188L6 "For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself."

W243L1 "I will be honest with myself today."

M5B8 "Indeed, the tranquility is their result; the outcome of honest learning, consistency of thought and full transfer."

M5C1 "Such are the truly honest."

M5C2 "In this as in all things they are honest."

M5J2 "Being consistent it is wholly honest."

M11A2 "He has actually merely become more honest."

S1C3 "Here, the asking may be addressed to God in honest belief, though not yet with understanding."

S2B2 "Forgiveness-to-destroy will therefore suit the purpose of the world far better than its true objective, and the honest means by which this goal is reached."

Quotes on "Honestly"

T3G31 "B's question, which he must ask himself very honestly, is whether he is willing to demonstrate that his parents have NOT hurt him."

T4E4 "Think honestly what you have thought that God would NOT have thought, and what you have NOT thought that God would have you think."

T10F1 "Let us be very calm in doing this, for we are merely looking honestly for truth."

T11J7 "As you look upon yourselves and judge what you do honestly, as you have been asked to do, you may be tempted to wonder how you can be guiltless."

T15E8 "Ask yourselves honestly, "Would I WANT to have perfect communication, and am I WHOLLY willing to let EVERYTHING that INTERFERES WITH IT, go forever?""

T16C8 "Would you PREFER the results of YOUR interpretation, considering honestly what they have been?"

W24L3 "A few subjects, honestly and carefully considered in each of the five practice periods which should be undertaken today, will be more helpful than a more cursory examination of a large number."

W24L5 "Try to cover as many different kinds of outcome as may honestly occur to you, even if some of them do not appear to you to be directly related to the situation, or even to be inherent in it at all."

W153L2 "For threat brings anger, anger makes attack seem reasonable, honestly provoked, and righteous in the name of self-defense."

M24A3 "Remember his promises, and ask yourself honestly whether it is likely that he will fail to keep them."

Quotes on "Dishonest"

M5D1 "To judge is to be dishonest, for to judge is to assume a position you do not have."

M5E1 "It is the dishonest act that follows a dishonest thought."

P4B3 "The unhealed healer may be arrogant, selfish, unconcerned, and actually dishonest."