Quotes about Integrity
it is better to live naked in truth than clothed in fantasy.
— Brennan Manning
The kingdom belongs to people who aren't trying to look good or impress anybody, even themselves. They are not plotting how they can call attention to themselves, worrying about how their actions will be interpreted or wondering if they will get gold stars for their behavior.
— Brennan Manning
When "doing" becomes divorced from "being", pious thoughts become a poor substitute for washing dirty feet.
— Brennan Manning
The way we are with each other is the truest test of our faith.
— Brennan Manning
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." —Micah 6:8
— Brennan Manning
When the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian."[2]
— Brennan Manning
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
— Brennan Manning
Act ahead of your feelings and trust that one day your feelings will match your convictions. Choose now and continue to choose this incredible truth.
— Henri Nouwen
They ask only one question: what is pleasing to the Spirit of God? And as soon as they have heard the sound of the Spirit in the silence and solitude of their hearts, they follow its promptings even if it upsets their friends, disrupts their environment, and confuses their admirers.
— Henri Nouwen
It is folly for a man who has a dead person in his house to leave him there and go to weep over his neighbor's dead."
— Henri Nouwen
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
— Henry David Thoreau
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
— Henry David Thoreau