Quotes About Integrity

It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but actually to be one. Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name.

The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.

A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.