Quotes about Dishonor
Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.
- William Faulkner
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
- Abraham Lincoln
Behind every dysfunction you will find dishonor, disloyalty, or at least disorder.
- Bishop TD Jakes
It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.
- Charles Spurgeon
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
- Samuel Johnson
Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation! Yea, woe to him who as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway!
- Herman Melville
If sin is not exposed, named, and renounced, then there has been no justice and God is dishonored.
- Fleming Rutledge
Remarriage while the true partner is living is a vain attempt to give respectability to dishonor by invoking a human law that overthrows God's law:
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
But death certainly, and life, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us neither better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil.
- Marcus Aurelius
Christians who live for self dishonor their Redeemer.
- Ellen White
He pointed to the money, and said: The love of it is the root of all evil. There it lies, the ancient tempter, newly red with the shame of its latest victory--the dishonor of a priest of God and his two poor juvenile helpers in crime. If it could but speak, let us hope that it would be constrained to confess that of all its conquests this was the basest and the most pathetic.
- Mark Twain