Quotes About Integrity

Character is both developed and revealed by test and all of life is a test.

You must make a counter-culture decision to focus on becoming more like Jesus. Otherwise, other forces like peers, parents, coworkers, and culture will try to mold you into their image.

Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.

Humility is not putting yourself down or denying your strengths; rather, it is being honest about your weaknesses. The more honest you are, the more of God's grace you get.

When someone begins to gossip to you, have the courage to say, "Please stop. I don't need to know this. Have you talked directly to that person?" People who gossip to you will also gossip about you. They cannot be trusted.

During conflict, it is tempting to complain to a third party rather than courageously speak the truth in love to the person you're upset with. This makes the matter worse. Instead, you should go directly to the person involved.

Who are you going to live for — yourself or God?

El denominador común del liderazgo, es la integridad.

el fundamento del liderazgo es el carácter; no el carisma, ni los estudios o los talentos, sino el carácter.

None of us are immune to temptation.

Use your whole body as a tool to do what is right for the glory of God.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.

Often we try to offer God partial obedience. We want to pick and choose the commands we obey. We make a list of the commands we like and obey those while ignoring the ones we think are unreasonable, difficult, expensive, or unpopular. I'll attend church but I won't tithe. I'll read my Bible but won't forgive the person who hurt me. Yet partial obedience is disobedience.

Christlikeness is not produced by imitation, but by inhabitation.

Discretion being the better part of valour

He did have a natural charm, the same way that Teddy did, it came from a kind of straightness in their character. Jimmy's charm was different, more dishonest perhaps.

Sometimes it takes just one good man

Lying came easily to Niven, he thought of it as a means of protecting the truth.

You couldn't necessarily judge a woman by the man she slept with. (Or could you?) Eva

quoting Elizabeth I. Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

It's healthier for your soul to live outside and above a degraded moral code than within and beneath one.

Moral codes are useful only when we have descended to needing them.

My grandmother told me something I've never forgotten. 'Never fuck anyone you wouldn't want to be.' -audience member

Tradition, Honor, Excellence.