Quotes About Integrity

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

The true craftsman has a light in his eye that Money can't buy Hal Stebbins I read this once when I was Writing a children's story; a time when inspiration had struck...At that time I knew just what he meant...It was so true. Shirley Briggs

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

When I make up my mind, I act. If I speak, what I say, I will do. If the hail rattles, let the flowers be crushed. The oak of the forest will lift up its head to the sky and the storm, towering and unscathed.

If you want to be proud of yourself, you have got to do things you can be proud of.

An epitaph should speak the truth.

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

A man may betray Jesus Christ by speaking too many words, and he may betray him through keeping his mouth shut.

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to "clear the numberless ascensions"* in about two minutes.

If we only give up something to God because we want more back, there is nothing of the Holy Spirit in our abandonment; it is miserable commercial self-interest.

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence. The

Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

To believe is to commit. In the area of intellectual learning I commit myself mentally, and reject anything not related to that belief. In the realm of personal belief I commit myself morally to my convictions and refuse to compromise. But in intimate personal belief I commit myself spiritually to Jesus Christ and make a determination to be dominated by Him alone.

When we become simply a promoter or a defender of a particular belief, something within us dies.

My vision of God is dependent upon the condition of my character. My character determines whether or not truth can even be revealed to me.

Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.

If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right.