Quotes about Integrity
Boasters brag most when they cannot be detected.
— Aesop
A man is known by the company he keeps.
— Aesop
Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.
— Aesop
Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.
— Aesop
Trust not your security to one who puts his own interests first.
— Aesop
God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.
— Derek Prince
She learned a long time ago people were driven by what they thought about the most. Whatever surfaced each morning when they opened their eyes ruled their hearts. Good. Evil. Love. Hate. Benevolence. Sex. Greed.
— DiAnn Mills
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Do and dare what is right, not swayed by the whim of the moment. Bravely take hold of the real, not dallying now with what might be. Not in the flight of ideas but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of living. God's command is enough and your faith in him to sustain you. Then at last freedom will welcome your spirit amid great rejoicing.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To deal with the word of Jesus otherwise than by doing it is to give him the lie. It is to deny the Sermon on the Mount and to say No to his word...That is why as soon as the hurricane begins we lose the word, and find that we have never really believed it. The word we had was not Christ's, but a word we had wrested from him and made our own by reflecting on it instead of doing it.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer