Quotes About Integrity

You don't have to do that, Rev. Really." "I know I don't have to, but it seems only fair. I could either raise your pay to eight twenty-five an hour or offer you lunch. I went with the lunch idea." "You're actually a very nice guy, aren't you?" "Ellie, I'm a man of God. Don't you expect nice?" Then he grinned. "Does God know you're throwing his name around to impress people?

The way i figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

No, Charlotte, I'm not going to tell him," I said drily. "The hymen of your integrity remains intact. Your precious jewel of a reputation is un-besmirched.

They stood up for truth and justice not out of an expectation of achievable victory in their lifetimes, but because it was the right thing to do.

It is better to choose to know the painful truth rather than settle on a comforting lie. Resolve to look for and to accept the truth, no matter how much it hurts. Nothing built on lies lasts.

The kind of Christians we will be in the time of testing depends on the kind of Christians we are today.

Pastor Wurmbrand once wrote that there were two kinds of Christians: "those who sincerely believe in God and those who, just as sincerely, believe that they believe. You can tell them apart by their actions in decisive moments."15

We will know when we act—or fail to act—as Christians when to be faithful costs us something. It may be a small thing at first—a place on a sports team because we won't play on Sunday mornings, or the respect of our peers when we will not march in a parade for a political cause. But the demands made on us will grow greater, and the consequences for failing to submit to the world's demands will grow more severe.

Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies!"3 You may not have the strength to stand up in public and say what you really believe, but you can at least refuse to affirm what you do not believe. You may not be able to overthrow totalitarianism, but you can find within yourself and your community the means to live in the dignity of truth.

Faithful Christians who foresaw a professional career for themselves or their children will need to give the trades a second look. Better to be a plumber with a clean conscience than a corporate lawyer with a compromised one.

Many Christians will see through these lies today but will choose not to speak up. Their silence will not save them and will instead corrode them, according to Mi?osz.

old Russian proverb, beloved by Solzhenitsyn: "One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

You cannot be both good and neutral, because to refuse desire is to refuse life. The goal is not to remove desire but to purify it.

That is the basis of ketman—and to surrender to that kind of self-defense will, over time, destroy your soul.

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.

he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.

It is about time that we discard all bunkum--

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

Didn't lie give you

the only thing of any use is the truth.

For Socrates, the goal of all human beings was arete.

Usually translated as 'goodness' or 'virtue'