Quotes About Integrity

In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.

We are not only tempted by wealth, we are tempted to blame wealth.

One of the things that modern Christians have a hard time doing right is loyalty.

The church is in the world the way a ship is in the ocean, and that is the way it should be. But bad things start happening when the ocean gets into the ship.

If your everyday conversation is sloppy and scattered, a highly disciplined writing voice will come off like some kind of schizophrenia.

True submission never grovels, and true authority never accepts flattery.

When a man singles a woman out for attention, he should have one thing clear in his mind. (Actually, a young Christian woman should understand the same thing as well.) To some extent, one of two things is happening. The first option is that the man is attempting to get the woman into bed dishonorably. The other possibility is that he is trying to do it honorably. If this sounds crass, you may not fully appreciate the holiness of the marriage bed.

The issue is not the rate at which things get dirty. Marriages will always include bumps, fusses, misunderstandings, and problems. However, when these problems arise, you will either push them away or you are going to deal with them right away. When you do not deal with them right away, they accumulate. Marriages that are put together are marriages where sin is not allowed to accumulate.

There is no such thing as 'invisible' honor or respect.

if the athletic program is not helping the kids understand God, man, sin, and salvation, then the program is failing, regardless of the win/loss record. But the same thing is true of the "classroom program.

A husband cannot say, "All my behavior notwithstanding, I still honor my wife, even though I never show it." Husbands must honor their wives.

There is a vast difference between the dutiful Christian citizen and the craven Christian who cites passages out of context in order to justify a continuation of his cowardice.

If you have told twenty-eight people this week that "he missed his nap today" as an excuse for his disobedience, then perhaps you ought to re-evaluate. We all know there are times when this is not an excuse but a reasonable explanation. But if you find yourself resorting to excuses all the time, then you are just trying to get people to overlook your lack of wisdom and discipline.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn't honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions, or gestures. Honor is among the most incarnational of the virtues. It must have feet and hands.

and speak good to people [i.e. enjoin righteousness and forbid evil,

Politics isn't about big money or power games, it's about the improvement of people's lives. Paul Wellstone

A good man cannot be a master and a master cannot be a good man.

Sincerity is the sum of all moral qualities.

there is no obscuring of responsibility such as "I try to be honest." We are honest or we are not honest.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin. (El Filibusterismo)

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood. (Noli Me Tangere)