Quotes about Integrity

to live in good morals means calm and peace for the conscience, however much disquiet there may be in the flesh in public.

In all other things I will yield to any one, but I neither can nor will forsake and deny the word.

In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.

For when the heart is evil, all its works are evil, no matter how splendid they are.

Here we must first of all resist all wrong, where truth or righteousness suffers violence or need, and dare make no distinction of persons, as some do, who fight most actively and busily against the wrong which is done to the rich, the powerful, and their own friends; but when it is done to the poor, or the despised or their own enemy, they are quiet and patient.

He does not say: "There dare not be an evil rumor," but rather: "There will be evil rumors. The world will revile him and hold him to be a wicked scoundrel, a heretic, and a deceiver.

It never does any good when one knave punishes another without first becoming good himself.

True, then, are these two sayings: "Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works";

A sham friend is more hateful than an open enemy.

115. Learn, then, what a hypocrite is; namely, one who lays claim to the worship of God and to charity, and yet, at the same time, destroys the worship of God and slaughters his brother.

Take the talents of wisdom and integrity. Without Christ, wisdom is double foolishness and integrity double sin, because they not only fail to perceive the wisdom and righteousness of Christ, but hinder and blaspheme the salvation of Christ.

That is, as he says here, he should bend off neither to the right hand nor to the left, but move forward straight and firmly in prosperity and adversity, in strength and weakness, in glory and shame, clinging faithfully and bravely to the Word of God alone.