Saturday, August 27, 2022

Integrity Quotes

 "Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable." --G.K. Chesterton

"Any goal without salvation as its ultimate end is as pointless as trying to live forever
     on this earth." --Tarek Saab, Gut Check
 
"In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions 
    any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls." --St. Angela Merici

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." 
--Mother Teresa

“The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gains more fruit.”--Saint Teresa of Avila

“Sow a thought, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit.
 Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.”
        --Peter Kreeft, Prayer for Beginners

“The soul will not attain sanctity if it does not keep watch over its tongue.”
--Saint Faustina Kowalska

“Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.”
--Jack Buck, sports announcer

“...teaching is food, even for the teacher.”
--Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop

"Charity begins today. Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street,
 today somebody is hungry. Our work is for today, yesterday has gone, 
tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today to make Jesus known, 
loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. 
Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today."
--Mother Teresa

"The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. 
He is also afraid when we are humble and good. 
He is especially afraid when we love Jesus very much. 
He runs away when we make the Sign of the Cross."
--St. Anthony of the Desert

Before reading these next two quotes, it is important to note that charity,
in these quotes’ original languages, means Love and is the same love
that the gospel writer John uses to say about God when he says,
“God is love.”  In English, we use love in many connotations 
but the ancients had different words  for different types of love.
Charity for us now seems to mean generosity, 
but that is not its true full meaning. Generosity is a result of charity.
“Faith and charity [love that God is] are the beginning and end of life.
The beginning is faith; the end is charity [love that God is]. 
Both, joined in unity, lead to God, and all the rest that attains perfection
and holiness follows from them.” --Saint Ignatius of Antioch

“For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your: Faith with virtue,
virtue with knowledge, Knowledge with self-control [temperance], 
self-control with steadfastness [endurance with patience],
steadfastness with godliness [devotion/piety], and godliness
 with brotherly affection [fraternal love/mutual affection],
 and brotherly affection with charity [love that is God]”
--2 Peter, 1:5-8

“Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is doing it, and right is right, even if nobody is doing it.”
--Saint Augustine

“The times are past when they closed our mouths with sausage.”
--A Polish poet, a few months after the strike in August 1980, 
referring to their integrity not being for sale anymore.

"Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted
 to make up the numbers." - Warren Buffett

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded." 
- Pope John Paul II

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