Quotes About Integrity

When you live a life of integrity, when you have a spirit of excellence, giving, serving, and treating people right, God's blessings will chase you down and overtake you.

There are tests we have to pass. One of them is being faithful when nothing is changing, doing our best when it's not growing, being good to people that are not being good to us.

It's hard to be something that you're not. It's hard to keep everyone happy, wear different masks, and pretend, depending on who you're with. You know what's easy: being you, being real, being vulnerable.

Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. COLOSSIANS 3:23–24 NASB

He sees every time you are hurt. He keeps the records. If you learn to stay on the high road and don't waste time trying to pay back those who've hurt you, God promises to be your vindicator. God will release favor and promotion in your life only when He knows your character can handle it. If you get upset every time somebody wrongs you and you try to vindicate yourself, you will not reach the place where God wants you to be.

If what others say doesn't match what God has put in your heart, let it go in one ear and out the other.

No permitas que entre el cansancio Eso es lo que hizo David. Él hacía lo correcto, pero seguía sucediendo lo incorrecto. Incluso después de que Samuel lo ungió para ser el siguiente rey, su familia lo menospreciaba y lo trataba como si fuera de segunda clase. Él podría haberse amargado y molestado, pero en cambio siguió cuidando del rebaño de su padre, haciéndolo con excelencia.

You can't let the outside pressures and other people squeeze you into becoming something that you're not.

Don't allow someone to treat you poorly just because you love them. And don't let the ugly in others kill the beauty in you.

Your job is not to try and make people like you. Your job is not to try to change people's minds about you. Your job is to run your race, to be who God has called you to be, and not worry about the critics and the naysayers.

One should never change one's practice based on a single journal article.

Suspicion kills friendship.

as scripture says, "God is too pure to behold iniquity." Certainly God wouldn't tolerate it today and then heal you of it tomorrow. That would make of God a human being, and not even a very nice one.

There is a God maintaining and sustaining the integrity of this universe, and it is perfect except when you see it through a glass darkly, or when you see it through a sense that has been to some extent mesmerized by the belief in good and evil.

How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?

There are always those prepared to sacrifice civilised principles for personal gain,

If the cause is big enough, people will justify dishonour.

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Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

With our limited life spans, we mere mortals have to figure out what best to do with our time so that when it ends we aren't ashamed to put our name on it, call it our life.

A man who doesn't test the mettle of his soul isn't much of a man...

When she smoothed my shirt and stepped back, I said, 'Mama, why do you always look at me like I'm dressed in a fancy suit?' She said, 'Because I see your soul, Leland Keller. Your soul is as a spick- and- span and sharp as a man in his church suit. That's what's important in life. Make sure your soul is dressed right, always in its church clothes. That's the only thing that matters to God' ...

She chose the adjective deliberately. Handsome or sexy conveyed surface appeal. Beautiful addressed the whole package, inside and out.

And I've told you that men cannot help what their cocks do. Only what they do with them." "So