Quotes about Integrity

Lies flee in the presence of truth.

Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine.

You cannot force people to walk with God. You cannot force them to repent. All you can do is live with integrity and invite them to do so as well. Take things a step at a time. Give them consequences when they refuse to deal with serious issues, and pray. Pray like the dickens. Pray every step of the way.

The warrior learns to master the art of holding fast to dreams while accepting the rigors of becoming the kind of man who can be entrusted with those dreams;

Of course our prayers are limited by our sin. If you want powerful prayers, get the sin out of your life.

When it comes to the moral question, it is not simply whether we say yes or no to desire, but always what we do with desire. Christianity recognizes that we have desire gone mad within us. But it does not seek to rectify the problem by killing desire; rather, it seeks the healing of desire, just as it seeks the healing of every other part of our human being.

The beauty is that as you become more whole, you can become holier. And as you become holier, you can become more whole.

Hope is a fruit of proven character.

You make no agreements with whatever the temptation or accusation is.

A man's heart reflects the man... Proverbs 27:19

Must live maturely, knowing that whatever else is happening, we must preserve the relationship if we would find our way.

This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness. But it is not.