Quotes About Integrity

Pastors and leaders must recognize, and then relinquish, any methods of control and manipulation they exercise. They must cease to gossip against fellow pastors and other believers, to talk disrespectfully about other ministries, or to reveal personal tidbits shared in confidence with them. Pastors who have privileged information, are sometimes the worst offenders of gossip. They must refrain from talebearing, before the wineskin tears.

Putting on the armor of God is a poetic way of saying, "I choose to examine anything in my life that is impure.

Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.

Don't ask more of others than you can deliver yourself.

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, "What is permissible?"—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn't want a minimal life. I didn't want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

Christians do not just go to work. They go to work "with God". They do not just do a job. They do their job "with God".

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

In the end, the only 'good name' that matters is not how men feel about us, but how God feels about us.

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego if we know that others will find out about them and think well of us. It is a deadly addiction for esteem that we have.

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)

Authenticity begins when you start by admitting that you are inauthentic.

The foundation of moral life as God's truthfulness.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

There is no point in winning an argument if you know or suspect you are wrong.

In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong" (Job 1:22, RSV).

self-interest is not the same as selfishness.

For a slave to be taught that he should no longer lie and cheat with revolutionary; more astonishing still was the slave's discovery that he did not want to lie or cheat and that he now loved the owner whom he had once resented and feared.

Reflecting our condition as a body of believers, recently in the same week a U.S. Senator and a Governor, both recognized Christian leaders, admitted extramarital affairs. "For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?" (I Peter 4:17)

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.

Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error.

Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.