Quotes about Integrity

who you are is more important than what you do. Why? Because the love of Jesus in you is the greatest gift you have to give to others. Who you are as a person — and specifically how well you love — will always have a larger and longer impact on those around you than what you do. Your

We lead more out of who we are than out of what we do, strategic or otherwise. If we fail to recognize that who we are on the inside informs every aspect of our leadership, we will do damage to ourselves and to those we lead.

You can't have the true peace of Christ's kingdom with lies and pretense.

Everyone who draws breath "takes the lead" many times a day. We lead with actions that range from a smile to a frown; with words that range from blessing to curse; with decisions that range from faithful to fearful….

When, out of fear, we avoid conflict and appease people, we are false peacemakers. For

Most leaders shipwreck or live inconsistent lives because of forces and motivations beneath the surface of their lives, which they have never even considered.

Why is it that so many Christians make such lousy human beings?

Your being with God (or lack of being with God) will trump, eventually, your doing for God every time. We cannot give what we do not possess. We cannot help but give what we do possess.

God is not intimidated by such hard and testing questions, nor is he unable to answer them. But we must come with the right kind of skepticism—not the kind that refuses to believe anything at all, but the kind that is committed to believe only what is really true.

Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.

Severe against others, he was most severe against himself. He resembled a Hebrew prophet He may be called a Christian Elijah.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.