Quotes about Integrity

We can fail to know because we do not want to know - because what would be known would require us to believe and act in ways contrary to what we want.

THOSE WITH A WELL-KEPT heart are persons who are prepared for and capable of responding to the situations of life in ways that are good and right.

So the idea conveyed is an absolutely fatal one - that to follow him simply means to try to behave as he did when he was on the spot, under pressure or persecution or in the spotlight. There is no realization that what he did in such cases was, in large and essential measure, the natural outflow of the life he lived when not on the spot.

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.

Spiritual formation is a matter of reworking all aspects of the self.

Your tongue follows correctness; your heart follows truth.

One has to feel strong revulsion toward the wrong feeling one now has or is likely to have and at the same time strong attraction to good feeling that one does not now feel.

One of the greatest weaknesses in our teaching and leadership today is that we spend so much time trying to get people to do things good people are supposed to do, without changing what they really believe.

Heroism, generally, is totally out of place in the spiritual life, until we grow to the point at which it would never be thought of as heroism anyway.

We cannot behave "on the spot" as he did and taught if in the rest of our time we live as everybody else does.

He teaches us how to be in prayer what we are in life and how to be in life what we are in prayer.

We settle back into de facto alienation of our religion from Jesus as a friend and teacher, and from our moment-to-moment existence as a holy calling or appointment with God. Some will substitute ritual behavior for divine vitality and personal integrity; others may be content with an isolated string of "experiences" rather than transformation of character.