Quotes about Honesty

The key insight is that honest talk transforms and emancipates when it is received in faithful seriousness.

Humanness depends on being faithfully heard. And being faithfully heard depends on risky speech of self-disclosure uttered in freedom before a faithful listener.

power is not free to disregard truth.

I am not fit for this office and never should have been here.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

There is nothing in this world so hard to get at as truth, and there is nothing in this world but truth that I care for.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

By all means, turn to wise and trusted friends in your moments of need. And don't be afraid to express your full gamut of emotions—David shows us that God wants us to come before Him with full honesty, even when we have doubts or feel anger. But my brothers and sisters, most of all turn to God in worship, in prayer, and in eagerly seeking Him and His counsel in the Word of God.

Do the right thing, deliver what you promised, and be consistent in the way you do it no matter what.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

With God there is no potential for fraud, deception, contamination, or disaster.

Nothing worse than a man who makes excuses, blames others, and refuses responsibility for his own actions." No doubt there were real experiences that underlined the worthlessness of excuse makers for these men.