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Quotes About Honor

We must speak with honor in the midst of being dishonored. We must speak with peace in the midst of being threatened. We must speak of good things in the midst of a bad situation. We must be obedient to, trust, and believe God and let Him boss around our contrary feelings.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
What's a brokenhearted person to do? We must praise God, seek God, look to God, call to God, experience God, fear God, learn from God, honor God, draw near to God, and take refuge in God. This
~ Lysa TerKeurst
So I fight for her. Not because we will reconnect. We haven't. And we might not. Not because she's right. Not because I'm right. I fight for her simply because I want to stay right in step with honoring God.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Our Lord's divinity has never been hesitant to step into the mess of humanity. He is the great answer to our every desire. And He will not let our need for divine, deep love meant to be fulfilled by Him alone be cheaply met by lesser things. He may very well give us good gifts. He may entrust to us relationships and success and blessings of all kinds. After all, He loves to give good gifts to those He loves. But He will not honor the chase of these things.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
God's eyes are on me. His face is not against me. And even if others appear to be against me, I must make sure in my reaction to them that I extend grace and honor God.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
What's a brokenhearted person to do? We must praise God, seek God, look to God, call to God, experience God, fear God, learn from God, honor God, draw near to God, and take refuge in God.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
The Bible reminds us that on the other side of humility we find wisdom (Proverbs 11:2). We will be lifted up by God Himself in due time (1 Peter 5:6). "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble" (James 4:6 NLT). Humility isn't a place of weakness but rather a position that will come with honor (Proverbs 18:12). And humility is an absolute requirement for those who ask God to heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14).
~ Lysa TerKeurst
I have to remember that giving honor reveals more about my character than the character of the other person.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
don't always feel like being nice and pleasant, but I can choose to in order to honor God.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Humility isn't a place of weakness but rather a position that will come with honor (Proverbs 18:12).
~ Lysa TerKeurst
When we worship God, we reverence Him above all
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Whatever you lend, let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and if you can contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.
~ Unknown
When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.
~ Unknown
The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.
~ Unknown
He had innocents to protect. That was part of his duty.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
loyalty must be earned from a man whose dignity has not been assaulted.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor.
~ Madeleine Albright
Whether to add you to my conquests. The plain evidence that you are indeed a woman of the world absolves me of some irritating points of honor on the question that have made me hesitate.
~ Madeline Hunter
I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need to attend your councils. I—' 'No. The Phthians will not care. And the others can talk all they like. I will still be Aristos Achaion.' Best of the Greeks. 'Your honor could be darkened by it." 'Then it is darkened.' His jaw shot forward, stubborn. 'They are fools if they let my glory rise or fall on this.
~ Madeline Miller
There is no honour in betraying your friends.
~ Madeline Miller
Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.
~ Madeline Miller
In the silence, I can hear Phoinix's breaths, labored with the exertion of speaking so long. I do not dare to speak or move; I am afraid that someone will see the thought that is plain on my face. It was not honor that made Meleager fight, or his friends, or victory, or revenge, or even his own life. It was Cleopatra, on her knees before him, her face streaked with tears. Here is Phoinix's craft: Cleopatra, Patroclus. Her name built from the same pieces as mine, only reversed.
~ Madeline Miller
True is what men believe, and they believe this of you.
~ Madeline Miller
This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector
~ Madeline Miller