Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

I'm stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold, she could not be bought.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

Don’t put yourself in a situation where you will not be able to achieve your ideals without violating them.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

I've had too many opportunities to sell out.

Don't ever silence your morality to be a part of anything.

Compromises lead you nowhere. You can't be happy doing something you don't believe in.

Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and stand tall in strength and virtue. You can do this and you will be happier for it for as long as you live. God bless you in cherishing, developing and holding on to this great gift, the quality of personal virtue.

Integrity is never painless.

Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong

Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.

All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.

Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.