Oswald Chambers Quotes

I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.