Quotes About Integrity

Every wife should have a husband like Norman, revere a husband like Norman instead of battering on his decency with her low-minded delights.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you

There is no divinely mandated link between morality and competence.

Whatever we set out to make- a meal, a table, a bed- we should make as well as we can. To do otherwise is spiritless.

Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

Herein lies the most solemn challenge facing Christians who want to communicate their faith: if we do not live in a way that draws others to the faith rather than repels them, none of our words will matter.

culture? As Lesslie Newbigin poses the question, "Can one who goes the way of the Cross sit in the seat of Pilate when it falls vacant?

Throughout the Bible, in fact, God shows a marked preference for "real" people over "good" people.

The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.

The Bible schools us to pray with blistering honesty.

A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live. Today's activists may be the best evangelists.

Amar la justicia es hacerla crecer, no vengarla

we should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.

I know of only two alternatives to hypocrisy: perfection or honesty.

True hope is honest.

He resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

I am not a yard of ribbon. I am not a leg of ham. I am not for sale to anyone.

We have to be more royal than royalty itself or nobody will believe us.

Either you have me or not at all. Either you love me or not at all. Either I am all yours or I am nobody's. I will have no half-measures with you.

I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light of the fire flickering and dying down and realized that not even in mortal danger could I bring myself to burn a book.

My honour and my pride are in my heart, and not in what the world says.

Thomas More once told me: lion or king, never show fear or you are a dead man.

If it was not in your interests to betray me then you would have been loyal.

Getting a woman into power is not the point—it's getting a good woman into power who thinks and cares about what she does.