Quotes about Integrity

Indeed, to know is something that pleases talkers and boasters, but to do is that which pleases God.

For instance, I have seen many cry out against sin in the pulpit who yet abide it well enough in their own heart, home, and manner of life. Potiphar's

The new convert is tested to see if the words he professes are justified with corresponding fruit in his life. Christian's

The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's

Well, if nobody will have me... Mercy shrugged. I will die unmarried and my moral convictions will be to me like a husband. For I cannot change my nature, and for as long as I live I do not intend to marry someone who disagrees with me in this.

I also know that a man, by the way he lives his life, can quickly invalidate whatever arguments or advice he presents to others for their own good. Yet

My foes have missed their mark in this shooting at me: I am not the man: I wish that they themselves be guiltless.  If all the fornicators and adulterers in England were hanged up by the neck till they be dead, John Bunyan, the object of their envy, would be still alive and well. 

I have determined, the Almighty God being my help and my shield, yet to suffer, if frail life might continue so long, even until the moss shall grow on my eyebrows, rather than to violate my faith and my principles.

still answering, as fast as the destroyer said, Sell Him; I will not, I will not, I will not, I will not; no, not for thousands, thousands, thousands of worlds: thus reckoning, lest I should, in the midst of these assaults, set too low a value on Him;

If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?

Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

If you pair excellence with humility, people not only won't run over you, they will respect you.