Quotes about Integrity

From biblical times to our time, godly people have always been spiritually disciplined people.

If after your death a biographer or your children were to scan your canceled checks for insight into what kind of Christian you were, what conclusion would they come to? What would they reveal about your walk with Christ? Would those checks be tangible evidence of your spiritual trustworthiness?

How will you prove that you are a doer of the Word of God as it's been presented to you here?

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens — these things, too, are the works of peace.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at time of challenge and controversy.

Whatever your life' work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.

I'll be who I am and say what I feel because people who mind don't matter and people who matter don't mind.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.