Quotes About Integrity

We mustn't say more than we should, but we mustn't say less than we must.

Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.

Before we open our mouths, we ought to heed the advice of the missionary Amy Carmichael and ask: Is what I'm about to say kind? Is it true? Is it necessary?

The Puritan Thomas Brooks once wrote, "We know metals by their tinkling, and men by their talking."[113

He would have made an excellent politician or statesman but had unfortunately been cursed from birth with an unshakable incorruptibility and moral integrity. The

A terrified rat will swear to anything.

Some men," she would add in ominous seriousness, "are nice as pie in public but within their own homes they are mean and miserly to those who have to live with them all the time. No one, perhaps, knows this except those who are captive within their houses.

I have no desire ... to preach a high-minded and merely edifying version of love

Here's a real man!" I said. "It's been pretty transparent all along that other people's opinions about these things wouldn't be enough for you.

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

Toda crença é respeitável, quando sincera e conducente à prática do bem. Condenáveis são as crenças que conduzam ao mal.

Por estas palavras: "O céu e a Terra não passarão sem que tudo esteja cumprido até o último iota", quis dizer Jesus ser necessário que a lei de Deus tivesse cumprimento integral, isto é, fosse praticada na Terra inteira, em toda a sua pureza, com todas as suas ampliações e consequências. Efetivamente,

Se tua mão é motivo de escândalo, corta-a; afirmativa enérgica que seria um absurdo se tomada ao pé da letra. Significa, simplesmente, a necessidade de destruir em si todas as causas de escândalo,

Los que temerán el confesarse discípulos de la verdad, no son dignos de ser admitidos en el reino de la verdad". Perderán el beneficio de su fe, porque es una fe egoísta que guardan para ellos mismos, pero que la ocultan por miedo de que les ocasione perjuicio en este mundo, mientras que aquellos que colocando la verdad sobre sus intereses materiales la proclaman abiertamente, trabajan al mismo tiempo para su porvenir y para el de los otros.

É melhor repelir dez verdades do que admitir uma única falsidade, uma só teoria errônea.

Character is who you are when no one is looking.

they saw in democracy something more than opportunities for self-interest and self-aggrandizement,

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

The truth may be inconvenient, but it's better than anything else.

Trust is a fragile thing, easily broken, and hard to mend.

keeping secrets will tear you up inside.

If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.

The right thing to do is often not the most prudent thing to do,

that, we are not the type of people who chase down others who spurn us.