Quotes About Integrity

I don't think there's any more dispiriting sight than a great work of art reduced to a slogan on a mug.

In a world where everyone is trying to be someone else, it's important to remember who you are and what you stand for.

If you can't trust, you can't be trustworthy.

My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.

Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me. Apparently Jimmy knew more about me at that point than I knew about myself.

If you absolutely believe that what you do is right, you're bullet-proof.

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

People who always want what they refuse to earn, eventually get what they deserve.

Real men aren't afraid of childish accusations. (Quite the paradox eh?)

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.

If you want your ministry to have 'it', more important than anything else we've discussed, you must have 'it'. When it has filtered through your heart - the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith, expectation, drive, hunger, and God's anointing - God tends to infuse your ministry with 'it'. He blesses your work. People are changed. Leaders grow. Resources flow. The ministry seems to take on a life of its own.

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

From the outside, everything looked good. But God doesn't look at the outside.

Be who God called you to be. Live for the an audience of ONE.

There's nothing cool about turning against God. There's nothing fun or cute or right about compromising who God wanted you to be.

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.

Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow God to heal you, change the way you think, and place deliberate safeguards in your life to protect you.

Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only get away but also plan their escape route.

It's the things no one sees that result in the things everyone wants.

The best explanation I can give you is this: it is what God does through a rare combination of these qualities found in his people: • Passion for his presence • A deep craving to reach the lost • Sincere integrity • Spirit-filled faith • Down-to-earth humility • Brokenness

Don't be afraid to be weird for being wise.

We are far from perfect but willing to be different.

As we become scarred and desensitized to what is right and wrong, good and evil, life-giving and life-draining, we lose sight of our first love. We move away from God one degree at a time.

When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most people will respect us even if they don't share our faith.