Quotes About Integrity

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.

Many a modern preacher is far less concerned with preaching Christ and Him crucified than he is with his popularity with his congregation. A want of intellectual backbone makes him straddle the ox of truth and the ass of nonsense. Bending the knee to the mob rather than God would probably make them scruple at ever playing the role of John the Baptist before a modern Herod. The acids of modernity are eating away the fossils of orthodoxy.

We simply cannot put a man into a crucible to see if he will give off unmistakable green fumes of envy.

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments in life: one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. "If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live.

Virginity among pagans meant a bodily condition, a physical intactness, a preserved isolation, to which there was nothing corresponding in the man. Hence pagans never glorified the virgin man, but only the virgin maid. But with Christianity, virginity ceased to mean physical intactness but unity. It meant not separation but relationship, not the will of another person alone, but also the will of God.

Truth does grow, but it grows homogeneously, like an acorn into an oak; it does not swing in the breeze, like a weathercock. The leopard does not change his spots nor the Ethiopian his skin, though the leopard be put in bars or the Ethiopian in pink tights. The nature of certain things is fixed, and none more so than the nature of truth. Truth may be contradicted a thousand times, but that only proves that it is strong enough to survive a thousand assaults.

To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more.

Some faces are never so gay as when regaling a scandal, which the generous heart would cover and the devout heart pray over.

The greatest inhumanity that can be ascribed to men is having an opportunity for doing good to others and doing nothing. The serious sin is not always one of commission, but omission.

Character is to some extent judged by what a man does with his falls. A pig falls into the mud and stays there; a sheep falls in and climbs out.

The modern solution in marriage is to find a new love; the Christian solution is to recapture an old love. Divorce with remarriage is a sign that one never loved a person in the first place, but only the pleasure which that person gave.

They never loved in the first place, for love never takes back that which it gives, even in unfaithfulness.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

And what shall man be called Ã¢â'¬Â¦ wise and righteous

Voulez-vous mériter la confiance de ceux qui ne vous connaissent pas? travaillez. On estime toujours ceux qui travaillent.

responsibilities but to securing the

I've always been of the opinion that if people could just bring themselves to say "I don't know" when they don't know, we'd all live longer and have to listen to a whole lot less bullshit. But that's not how people are. People hate to say "I don't know." They'll speculate, gesticulate, and just plain make up shit to avoid saying the words out loud.

Non possiamo essere imparziali. Possiamo essere soltanto intellettualmente onesti.

Noi non possiamo essere imparziali. Possiamo essere soltanto intellettualmente onesti: cioè renderci conto delle nostre passioni, tenerci in guardia contro di esse e mettere in guardia i nostri lettori contro i pericoli della nostra parzialità. L'imparzialità è un sogno, la probità è un dovere.

Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love and our trust wherever you wander. Father.

Char was too precious to hurt, too precious to lose, too precious to betray, too precious to marry, too precious to kill, too precious to obey.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook. -Char to Ella