Quotes about Integrity
Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.
— Anselm of Canterbury
What's true will never contradict what's true. Article 2 of the Belgic Confession, based on Psalm 19, Romans 1, and several other texts, declares that God has given us two reliable revelations: the words of Scripture and the facts of nature. Thus, it would be impossible for the facts of nature ever to contradict the words of the Bible.
— Hugh Ross
My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.
— John Tyler
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse
— St. Augustine
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
— St. Augustine
Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.
— St. Augustine
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, And try to be that perfectly.
— Francis de Sales
A man who works with his hands is a labourer. A man who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. A man who works with his haands, his head, and his heart is an artist.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks.
— Saint Jerome
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
— Saint Jerome
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'
— Saint Jerome