Quotes about Integrity
If you want to be saved and be a Christian, then stay open to correction. Preachers have to rebuke, or they should leave their position. The Christian who won't accept correction is only pretending to be a Christian.
— Martin Luther
faith is a free work to which no one can be forced. Heresy is a spiritual matter and cannot be prevented by constraint. Force may avail either to strengthen alike faith and heresy, or to break down integrity and turn a heretic into a hypocrite who confesses with his lips what he does not believe in his heart. Better to let men err than to drive them to lie".
— Martin Luther
faith is a free work to which no one can be forced. Heresy is a spiritual matter and cannot be prevented by constraint. Force may avail either to strengthen alike faith and heresy, or to break down integrity and turn a heretic into a hypocrite who confesses with his lips what he does not believe in his heart. Better to let men err than to drive them to lie".
— Martin Luther
to live in good morals means calm and peace for the conscience, however much disquiet there may be in the flesh in public.
— Martin Luther
In all other things I will yield to any one, but I neither can nor will forsake and deny the word.
— Martin Luther
In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.
— Martin Luther
For when the heart is evil, all its works are evil, no matter how splendid they are.
— Martin Luther
Here we must first of all resist all wrong, where truth or righteousness suffers violence or need, and dare make no distinction of persons, as some do, who fight most actively and busily against the wrong which is done to the rich, the powerful, and their own friends; but when it is done to the poor, or the despised or their own enemy, they are quiet and patient.
— Martin Luther
He does not say: "There dare not be an evil rumor," but rather: "There will be evil rumors. The world will revile him and hold him to be a wicked scoundrel, a heretic, and a deceiver.
— Martin Luther
It never does any good when one knave punishes another without first becoming good himself.
— Martin Luther
True, then, are these two sayings: "Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works";
— Martin Luther
A sham friend is more hateful than an open enemy.
— Martin Luther