Quotes About Integrity

What they say behind my back is none of my business, but I come back here and I know when I turn my light off at night I did my best.

In the life of earnest Christians who pursue and profess holiness, humility ought to be the chief mark of their uprightness.

Life is a whole, and the pious hour of prayer is judged by God from the ordinary frame of the daily life where the hour of prayer is only a small part. Not the feeling I call up but the tone of my life during the day is God's criterion of what I really am and desire.

The image he bears decides his destiny.

Humility before God is nothing if not proved in humility before men

In linking holy and without blemish (or without blame) so closely, the Holy Spirit would have led us to seek for the embodiment of holiness as a spiritual power in the blamelessness of practice and of daily life.

Humility is the only soil in which virtue takes root; a lack of humility is the explanation of every defect and failure.

If only he could learn to lie so compassionately.

Nie ma takiego klamstwa, ktorego nie mozna wypowiedziec, aby dojsc do prawdy. Nie ma takiej przysiegi, ktorej nie mozna zlamac, aby ocalic wiernosc.

If progress is not the right word for buildings or poems, what is the right way to evaluate cultural change? I suggest integrity.

The pursuit of a mature life, a life that can bear the weight of image bearing, is in many ways the continual accumulating of more and more secret disciplines, until we are fully formed in the image of the one who confronted every temptation, every opportunity for the misuse of power, and always and only bore the true image in the midst of it all.

I am the most forgiving of men… but standards must be maintained!

Man must confront his worst fear to find his virtue.

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.

If you suspect a problem, there is a problem. Don't let them get away with even the very first lie. Be vigilant.

No matter how unjustly you've been treated, if you start fighting fire with fire, you'll get burned.

Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.

Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.

It was so hard to live the right kind of life, even if you knew what it was.

she'd rather be alone than cling to people she didn't care about.