Quotes about Integrity

When the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian."[2]

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

Act ahead of your feelings and trust that one day your feelings will match your convictions. Choose now and continue to choose this incredible truth.

They ask only one question: what is pleasing to the Spirit of God? And as soon as they have heard the sound of the Spirit in the silence and solitude of their hearts, they follow its promptings even if it upsets their friends, disrupts their environment, and confuses their admirers.

It is folly for a man who has a dead person in his house to leave him there and go to weep over his neighbor's dead."

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

I wish my countrymen to consider, that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.