Quotes about Integrity
Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.
— Martin Luther
many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
— Martin Luther
I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.
— Martin Luther
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
— Martin Luther
Our whole life should be manly; we should fear God and put our trust in him.
— Martin Luther
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.
— Martin Luther
no one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.
— Martin Luther
But the truth will win out.
— Martin Luther
Oh, if a man were so to regard himself and his position, and attended to its duties alone, how rich in good works would he be in a short time, so quietly and secretly that no one would notice it except God alone!
— Martin Luther
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