Honesty-friendship-truth Quote by Aaron Blaylock

“All of us have our secrets, don’t we? The little petty lies. The bigger sins.”

— Jo Spain

“Lies are terrible things. One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through…

— Haruki Murakami

“I said, "Isn't lying a sin?" "Yes," [Grandmother] answered soberly. "But that wasn't a lie. That was camouflage.”

— Frederic S. Durbin

“All the time when I speak to you, even now, I'm saying not precisely what I think, but what will impress you and make…

— Iris Murdoch

“of our deepest desires is to change our sinful habits.  We try not to take credit when we make positive changes.  We never claim…

— Matt Carter

“Dishonesty is like a boomerang. Just when you think all is well, it hits you in the back of your head.”

— Pavan Choudary

“Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from…

— Meredith Duran

“It was the kind of voice that made me want to confess my sins and admit that everything in my life was my own…

— Seanan McGuire

“sinful motive often hides itself under the mask of reverence for another virtue.”)”

— Jimmy Swaggart

“Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.”

— Saul Bellow

“And here is a prejudice of mine, confirmed by my lights through many years of observation. Sinners are not all dishonorable people, not by…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Never be ashamed to speak your mind. Sometimes the honesty of your own words is all you can count on.”

— Gena D. Lutz