Quotes about Integrity
One person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.
— Elie Wiesel
One of his [Rebbe Mikhal of Zlotchev] prayers: I have but one request; may I never use my reason against truth.
— Elie Wiesel
There is "response" in responsibility.
— Elie Wiesel
I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they'd been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. You get what you pay for.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and godliness in the world, and a whole lot less fear of each other.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Saral came one day with a idea for drawing the women to hear the Gospel. She would teach them to knit with some pink wool she had been given, 'and they will love me more and like to listen when I talk about Jesus.' Amy could not say yes to that. She explained that the Gospel needed no such frills. It is the power of God for salvation....There was no need for tricks which might open houses...
— Elisabeth Elliot
A woman ought to be honest with a man who shows interest in her.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Marriage is more than finding the right person…it is being the right person!
— Elizabeth George