24 CHRISTIANS QUOTES ON HONESTY AND INTEGRITY ________________________________________ 1.If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love. Amy Carmichael Biography and Bibliography ________________________________________ 2.I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness. Max Lucado Upwords ________________________________________ 3.One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word. Dorothy Day ________________________________________ 4.Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting; to exercise authority of honesty, rather than to defer to power or deceive to get it; to influence someone for justice, rather than impress anyone for gain; and by grace, to find treasures of joy, of friendship, of peace hidden in the fields you give me daily to plow. Ted Loder ________________________________________ 5.If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes. George Muller George Muller Foundation ________________________________________ 6.Keep clear of concealment - keep clear of the need of concealment. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding something comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects which must not be touched, the bloom of life is gone. Phillips Brooks Biography ________________________________________ 7.Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to wear two vizards, one for an appearance before men, and another for a short snatch in a corner; but it must have God, and be with him in the duty of prayer. It is not lip-labour that it doth regard, for it is the heart that God looks at, and that which sincerity looks at, and that which prayer comes from, if it be that prayer which is accompanied with sincerity John Bunyan Online Library ________________________________________ 8.Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. It is for cowards to lie. George Herbert Biography ________________________________________ 9.If you want the truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world. it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb,a lie will go round the world while truth is putting its boots on. Charles Haddon Spurgeon The Spurgeon Archive ________________________________________ 10.Never... think we have a due knowledge of ourselves till we have been exposed to various kinds of temptations, and tried on every side. Integrity on one side of our character is no voucher for integrity on another. We cannot tell how we should act if brought under temptations different from those we have hitherto experienced. This thought should keep us humble. We are sinners, but we do not know how great. He alone knows who died for our sins. John Henry Newman Biography ________________________________________ 11.A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesnt take long before everyone knows. C. S. Lewis Into The Wardrobe ________________________________________ 12.Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart. John Wesley Wesley Centre ________________________________________ 13.You want to mess up the minds of your children? Heres how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of dos and donts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur. Charles (Chuck) Swindoll Insight For Living ________________________________________ 14.Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Dont hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less. Billy Sunday Brief Biography ________________________________________ 15.Truth is truth, whether its spoken by the lips of Jesus or Balaams donkey. George Macdonald The Golden Key Website ________________________________________ 16.Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed. David Jeremiah Turning Point ________________________________________ 17.Ever notice how the straight and narrow path gets the most wear along the edges? Author Unknown ________________________________________ 18.Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart. Martin Luther Biography and Information ________________________________________ Among the many great things about admitting your weakness and vulnerability is that it is so relaxing. I 19.dont have to be a fake any more. Dan Hayes ________________________________________ 20.Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside. Author Unknown ________________________________________ 21.The single most important element in any human relationship is honesty - with oneself, with God, and with others. Catherine Marshall Biography ________________________________________ 22.We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld ________________________________________ 23.Has it never dawned upon you that the essence of witnessing is just plain honesty? You are salt - whether you feel like it or not. You are not told to act like salt but to be what you are. You are a light. God has done a work in your life. Dont try to shine. Let the light that God put there shine out. It demands no more than honesty. It demands honesty before unbelievers. In fact such honesty is ninety per cent of witnessing. Witnessing is not putting on a Christian front as to convince prospective customers. Witnessing is just being honest, that is, being true to what God has made you in your speech and everyday behaviour. John White Biography ________________________________________ 24.Jeremy Taylor gives us some fundamental rules for prayer. And the chief of them is this: Do not lie to God. And that curt piece of advice, so bluntly thrown down for us, is indeed all-important. Do not burn false fire upon Gods altar; do not pose and pretend, either to Him or to yourself, in your religious exercises; do not say more than you mean, or use exaggerated language that goes beyond the facts, when speaking to Him whose word is truth. Arthur John (A. J.) 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