Monday, September 8, 2008

Honesty

Honesty is the human quality of communicating and acting truthfully related
to truth as a value. This includes listening, and any action in the human
repertoire — as well as speaking as defined by Wikipedia.


I have for many years given it no thought as to weather I was telling the truth and or a lie, the only thing I wanted was the easiest path. I no longer believe that and understand how important it is for someone to be completely honest. I strive in everything I do to tell the truth.
Where I think I come up short is not so much the spoken word as the unspoken words that I have. I will not tell someone everything I know in order to avoid conflict, hurt, etc. I have thought about this more and I will strive to be 100% honest in all my dealings. No white lies, no half truths, no easy paths, only the truth as I know it.


Being a man of character is the not the easy path, but it is the path I must travel.



If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain


A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ~Thomas
Jefferson

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ~Adlai Stevenson

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IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

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The Armor of God - Ephesians 6:10-18

10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.