Faithful Quotes - Page 14

If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.

Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

I am faithful up to the point of death. It's the only thing I respect. I never abandon anyone. I'm not talking about sexual relations. I'm faithful in my friendship, my admiration.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.

And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.

The pinnacle of the fulfillment I can ever experience for my spirit and soul is to hear from the Lord, when I see Him face to face, 'Well done my good and faithful servant.'

When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

I am not called to be successful, I am called to be faithful.

Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.

Put your ear to the ground of God's word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.

As Pope Francis says in Amoris laetitia, pastors must "make room for the consciences of the faithful, who very often respond as best they can to the Gospel amid their limitations, and are capable of carrying out their own discernment in complex situations. We have been called to form consciences, not to replace them" (no. 37). As for the former statement, we should only be afraid if the church is smaller because of our failure to welcome people and preach the Gospel in a way that touches their hearts.

May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.

Faithful heart may have froward tongue.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.

If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies.

We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.