Quotes About Integrity

She [the wife of godly character] brings him [her husband] good, not harm, all the days of her life (Proverbs 31:12). Wait a minute! My mind raced. All the days of her life? What was that supposed to mean? I had yet to meet any woman who had been married all the days of her life. Did this verse mean that she tried to do her husband good…even before she met him?

Earth was their mother, but her land and water could never be desecrated; blasted open and polluted by man, but never desecrated. Man only desecrated himself in such acts; puny humans could not affect the integrity of Earth. Earth always was and would ever be sacred. Mother Earth might be ravaged by the Destroyers, but she still loved the people.

As she dressed that night, Lucy remembered Catherine's words: "If it's true, it isn't libel.

Truth has nutritional value.

We are concentrates, charged with the task in life of avoiding dilution.

Lying may be necessary, but should always be painful.

Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.

When you put your foot down and say, "I will not allow myself or the kids to be treated this way anymore. It's destructive to me, to them, and to our marriage," you are not going against God by speaking the truth in love. You are standing for goodness, for truth, and for the healing and restoration of your marriage.

When deceit and attack become a regular part of marital interactions, there is no clear communication, no resolution to the problem, and no healing. It's impossible to have a close, loving relationship with someone you can't trust, can't talk with, or who won't take a look at himself when he hurts you.

Marriage does not give someone a "get out of jail free" card that entitles a husband to lie, mistreat, ignore, be cruel, or crush his wife's God-given dignity. To believe otherwise is not to know the heart of God.

God calls us to be biblical peacemakers, not peacekeepers or peace fakers.

In addition, staying together regardless of the costs continues to enable the husband to grossly sin against them with no consequences, which is not biblical.

Test the other person. See how he responds to you when you don't give him what he wants. If you don't see consistent changes in the way he thinks, acts, and interacts with you and others, don't for a minute believe his words or his profuse tears. (Proverbs 26:23-24) Jesus said, "Produce fruit in keeping with repentance." (Matthew 3:8.)

You can sweep broken glass under the carpet, but eventually it will work its way through the rug and cut your foot.

With a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B.

When coercion of any kind is used in the interests of the Christian message, the message itself is corrupted.

Which is worse: to take a stand and fail or to fail to stand

In politics, being deceived is no excuse.

There are no weaknesses which we so thoroughly despise as those to which ourselves have yielded.

The creepy stuff was that I have had sex with women who worked for me on this show. Now, my response to that is yes I have. I have had sex with women who worked on this show. Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would, especially for the women.

Yes, or no, is the hinge on which everything turns. Shall I yield and dishonor God, or shall I resist and triumph in His might? There is no possible compromise; for compromise with sin is itself the most insidious form of sin. No man can pass through these crises, and be after them what he was before. He has met God face to face, and he must either be the better or the worse for that experience.

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

She was dying to look, but she supposed that if she lived her life properly then by the time it was over she'd know what was in it. That was sort of the whole point, wasn't it? To understand your own story? Reading the book now would just be cheating. And what kind of jackass cheats at life?

What is the point of magic if we can't use it to fix real problems?