Quotes about Integrity

My future is righteousness.

I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Lying to God is like sawing the branch you're sitting on. The better you do it, the harder you fall.

The decisive war is the other one - to become fully human, which means to become compassionate, honest, brave. And this is a war against the darkness which no man fights alone.

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

The Christianity of America is a Christianity, of whose votaries it may be as truly said, as it was of the ancient scribes and Pharisees, 'They bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.