Quotes about Integrity

Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.

There is no literature in all the world that is more true to life and more honest than Psalms, for here we have warts-and-all religion. Every skeptical thought, every disappointing venture, every pain, every despair that we can face is lived through and integrated into a personal, saving relationship with God—a relationship that also has in it acts of praise, blessing, peace, security, trust and love.

Don't waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the barren pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are. It's a scandal when people waste their lives on things they must do in the darkness where no one will see. Rip the cover off those frauds and see how attractive they look in the light of Christ. Wake up from your sleep, Climb out of your coffins; Christ will show you the light!

The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.

Don't curse God; and don't damn your leaders.

Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.

Those who parade the rhetoric of liberation but scorn the wisdom of service do not lead people into the glorious liberty of the children of God but into a cramped and covetous squalor.

And then he prayed, "God, I'm asking for two things before I die; don't refuse me—Banish lies from my lips and liars from my presence. Give me enough food to live on, neither too much nor too little. If I'm too full, I might get independent, saying, 'God? Who needs him?' If I'm poor, I might steal and dishonor the name of my God.

You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.

Good poetry survives not when it is pretty or beautiful or nice but when it is true: accurate and honest.

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.