Faithful Quotes by Julia Ward Howe, William Bartram, Charles de Gaulle, Thomas Paine, Britney Spears, Susan Rice and many others.
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.
It’s always easiest for me as a writer if I know I have a great ending. It can make everything else work. If you don’t have a good ending, it’s the hardest things in the world to come up with one. I always loved the ending of ‘The Kite Runner,’ and the scenes that are most faithful to the book are the last few scenes.
Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the church‘s credibility.
If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.
To you, Mom and Dad, and to all the moms and dads and
families and faithful people everywhere, I thank you for sacrificing for your
children, and for other people’s children, for wanting so much to give them
advantages you never had, for wanting so much to give them the happiest life
you could provide
families and faithful people everywhere, I thank you for sacrificing for your
children, and for other people’s children, for wanting so much to give them
advantages you never had, for wanting so much to give them the happiest life
you could provide
The problem is not with the faith, but with the faithful
Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.
It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life … by means of an appropriate formation … of all the faithful.
The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.
The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
We must each walk through life on our own, but we don’t have to do it alone. God wants a powerful people. He gives His power to those who are faithful. We have a sacred obligation to seek after the power of God and then to use that power as He directs. And when we have the power of God with us, nothing is impossible.
Though I have seldom done anything to my own satisfaction, I am better satisfied with the translation of the New Testament than I ever expected to be. The language is, I believe, simple, plain, intelligible; and I have endeavored, I hope successfully, to make every sentence a faithful representation of the original.
As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something‘s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.
God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances – things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.
Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.
Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God’s commandments because they come from God, not because they proceed from common sense or sophisticated reason.
To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb
The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral – whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I’m in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I’m lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society .
People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical or rational basis, but because they are found in practice to give the faithful a sense of sacred transcendence.
The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.
You don’t like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don’t break it. Don’t break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That’s not being faithful to what this country‘s about.
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
Health is a great blessing–competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing–and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.
All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.
I couldn’t live without my faithful companion, Megs the dog.
How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?
I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.
Guilt is a good friend, isn’t it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you, and in the face of all reason it will stay by your side, and even when you tell it, “I am moving on now,” it will say, “I shall never leave you; never.” If only I could find a lover as faithful as guilt.
Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his: he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so.
The Lord has never indicated that black skin came because of being less faithful. Now, the Indian; we know why he has changed, don’t we? The Book of Mormon tells us that; and he has a dark skin, but he has promise there that through faithfulness, that they all again become a white and delightsome people.
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
It is better to be faithful than famous.
I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.
The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.
Being faithful in that which is another man‘s qualifies us to receive our own.
I esteem it the crowning mercy of my life that not only the chief ends I contemplated on becoming a missionary are attained, but I am allowed to see competent, faithful, and affectionate successors actively engaged in the work.
God is faithful and true. Confess your inability and His ability, and keep your eyes on Him.
We have to have the faithful in government.
Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible.
Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.
Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.
Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.
Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.
We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating
It’s better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
One says also, it is one of the most faithful men in Hollywood, and makes again more interesting it equal.
Jesus doesn’t need you to make him palatable…he needs you to be faithful.
Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly – young and old, faithful and cynical – as has Pope Francis.
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence.
[Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]
[Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]
I would like to you to become rooted into the earth. I am perfectly in agreement with Friedrich Nietzsche who says: “I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth and do not believe in those who speak of other worldly hopes!” Learn your first lesson of trust by trusting the earth. It is your home right now!
We will never be more ourselves, with the fullness of our personality and the uniqueness of our gifting, than when we just wholly give ourselves over to our very faithful, faithful God.
True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
Don’t worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.
Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.
Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.
For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, “I have got a friend!”
Each faithful young woman in the Church proclaims that individual worth is one of her most cherished values.
No one person can fulfill all your needs. But the community can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the fact that, beyond your anguish, there are human hands that hold you and show you God’s faithful love.
The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
The person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants.
I’m not faithful to one particular medium, and it’s what I try to teach to people who work with me.
What a fuss people make about fidelity!” exclaimed Lord Henry. “Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
I’ve always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
Yet some of the most faithful, effective Christians I know are those who are living out their quiet calling to the few in their home, to their fledging church, or to the homeless under a bridge in their city. Nothing is meager or insignificant about that.
We have a pope [Francis] who’s very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there’s no doubt he’s going to continue to face resistance from conservatives inside the church.
To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self’s activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . .
Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.
There is not enough time in the day to address all these challenges we face. I pray for wisdom in prioritizing issues and working on the things God would intend, so one day we too will hear those words: “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”
If you want to be faithful to someone, start by being faithful to yourself.
Everyone in the world needs someone they can depend on. Be their faithful friends, determined advocates, or a loving family. But occasionally in life, the people we thought would always be there for us…leave. And if that happens, it’s amazing the lengths we’ll go to, to get them back.
I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Don’t pursue a heart that you’re not ready to be loyal to.
Gary Nixon and I have had a loving, committed, faithful relationship for twenty-five years (now over 30) yet we are denied more than a thousand rights and protections that go automatically with marriage.
I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I’d lost my faithful ally. I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t get the loss out of my mind. It was like discovering that someone in my family had died.
Trust your daughters, they are faithful. Honor your daughters, they are honorable. Educate your daughters, they are amazing.
Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.
Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.
The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.
I will stay faithful to what God has called me to do all the days of my life, and I don’t try to figure it out.
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of beliefs that only the very faithful could adhere to, i.e., those who believe in a security that amounts to being lost in the herd and defined in terms of common and external goals
With couture you have faithfulness – people are faithful to you. In couture, you will see that the cut looks like a lace dress from a distance, but it’s only when you get nearer you understand that it’s layers of lace, hand stitched in a certain shape, all the work – the zips, the buttons, the hooks… it goes on.
Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can succeed in our sacred callings.
We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.
If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.
Remain faithful to the light… Remember, the sun is shining behind the clouds.
Don’t accommodate any degree of temptation. Prevent sin and avoid having to deal with its inevitable destruction. So, turn it off! Look away! Avoid it at all costs. Direct your thoughts in wholesome paths. Remember your covenants and be faithful in temple attendance.
There have been times of late when I have had to hold on to one text with all my might: “It is required in stewards that a man may be found faithful.” Praise God, it does not say “sucessful.
We ask the Blessed Virgin for the gift of conversion for all Christians, so that they may announce and give a faithful and coherent witness to the perennial evangelical message, which indicates to humanity the path to an authentic peace.
However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.
Comrade Kim Jong Il, by continuing the march of Songun without interruption and with absolute trust in our service personnel and other people who were faithful to the Party’s cause, led the socialist cause of Juche along the road of victory.
One footnote says that divorced and remarried faithful, who are not recognized by the Catholic Church because it upholds the indissolubility of marriage, might in some particular cases have access to the sacraments.
Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.
The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.
When you don’t understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own.
Every man and woman who serves the Lord, no matter how faithful they may be, have their dark hours; but if they have lived faithfully, light will burst upon them and relief will be furnished.
Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.
Our Christian witness is authentic when it is faithful and unconditional.
I feel called to be faithful.
Now the big danger is to avoid doing anything, unless you have a surety, unless you have an assurance that you’ll be successful. It’s not about being successful. It’s about being faithful. The good is worth doing, because it’s good. And who knows what the results will be?
Confidence is not based on you having all the resources needed to take care of yourself; confidence is based upon the truth that God is faithful.
Many men say: ‘If I could only see an angel, if I could only hear an angel proclaim something, that would cause me to be faithful all the days of my life!’
If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple of science. Even from its lofty minarets the philosopher may summon the faithful to prayer, and the priest and sage exchange altars without the compromise of faith or knowledge.
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
Michael Savage turns on a microphone and broadcasts his opinions to faithful followers who enjoy listening to his views on politics, social issues, and anything else that this colorful, provocative, entertaining guy comes up with. It doesn’t matter which of his views I agree or disagree with.
Faithful parents can invite the power of heaven to influence their children. Nevertheless, those children remain agents unto themselves, and the choice to repent or not ultimately is theirs.
Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let’s leave judgment in the hands of God.
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
I never make friends easily. And when I do, I’m faithful for life.
We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful.
Those who are faithful to God are protected and prospered. That comes as the result of serving God and keeping His commandments. But with those blessings comes the temptation to forget their source. It is easy to begin to feel the blessings were granted not by a loving God on whom we depend but by our own powers.
My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.
I haven’t hurt you … if I have, it’s the faithful wound of a friend.
Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.
They’re getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.
It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They’ll stay faithful as long as it’s safe and doesn’t involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.
If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and hunters; obscure men, as far as the world is concerned, but faithful friends, loyal comrades.
I am not faithful but I am attached.
O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.
It is imperative that Christians be like Jesus, by living freely within the culture as missionaries who are as faithful to the Father and His gospel as Jesus was in His own time and place.
If you be faithful as an influencer, God will allow those you mentored you to become your mentees.
I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.
Even when I was facing death, I remained full of faith. I did not want to be faithful to God all the way up to serving in Liberia for ten months, only to give up at the end because I was sick.
I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty.
An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for astrict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
You try to be faithful And sometimes you’re cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can’t cope. And when you take the lead, I become your footstep. Your absence leaves a void. Without you, I can’t cope. You have disturbed my sleep, You have wrecked my image. You have set me apart. Without you, I can’t cope.
A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.
You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer.
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.
Suffering for truth’s sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
Faithful to the cause of Prohibition – She hath done what she could
Even when you have failed, Jesus is right there with you, ready to pick you up and restore you to wholeness. Jesus is a faithful, dependable and trustworthy friend.
I not only wanted to write when I was 7 and 8, but I sent stuff out when I was 7 and 8. I sent it out… and I couldn’t believe that they would turn down my poems about faithful dogs.
A book is a book, but a movie is a movie. The more faithful you are, the more you’ll come up with Harry Potter #1 and #2, which are like filmed books on tape. They’re so petrified of turning off the readers that they make no concessions to the fact that they’re trying to make a piece of cinema.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.
Just know this, that God is faithful, even when you don’t have faith yourself.
The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however admirable the sermon may be, however attractive the service, however faithful the pastoral visitation, none of these things can damage him or his kingdom if prayer is neglected.
Be not afraid. God loves you & wants us to love one another as He loves us. As miserable, weak and sinful as we are, He loves us with an infinitely faithful love.
Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there is just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that’s the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed — when there is just a few.
In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother‘s knee.
I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.
Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.
God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us.
But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.
Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful, relationships? No, No, No. Whoever said they were? Only the Bible or something. No one ever said that was a good idea.
Keep your soul at peace, in order to be able to be attentive and very faithful to the inner movement of the Holy Spirit.
The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God’s wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Faithful heart may have froward tongue.
[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond – yet the world will call it unclean.
Today too, as at her origins, the Church… cries out:“Veni, Sancte Spiritus! Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love!” Amen.
Obedience is our responsibility. The outcome is God’s responsibility. As we learn to trust him with our future, trust him with those we love, trust him as our provider, and trust his sovereign plan, that gives us the foundation to step out in faith. We can trust that he’ll always be faithful.
No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.
O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty.
A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.
Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it’s important to remember that down through the centuries, people motivated by their faith have done many important things. Martin Luther King Jr. – motivated by his faith – brought about an end to segregation in our country.
Our life is full of brokenness – broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God’s faithful presence in our lives.
I am more faithful than I intended to be!
One of the hallmarks of a life well lived, a life worthy to return to God’s presence and receive a fulness of the Father, is to be “valiant in the testimony of Jesus”. Paul was valiant, and we can be valiant as well. To be “valiant in the testimony of Jesus” is to be faithful.
For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.
The faithful witness, like…Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists obsession with solution. He betrays society when he is silent…He is true to himself and to people when his clarity causes disquiet.
Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.
Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.
It’s easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband…..but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.
I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.
Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.
For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
Virgos are very faithful. I’m a faithful friend. I’m a faithful lover.
We all doubt sometimes, and that’s okay, but He’s always there. He’s always faithful even when we’re not.
Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning…the faithful horse has been with us always.
Strive to be faithful to that which God has called you.
What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone else? Is it faithful to lie in bed night after night with someone you love but no longer desire while ardently dreaming of someone else?
It is You Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who gives me strength and are always close to the suffering soul. Creatures will abandon a person in his suffering, but You, O Lord, are faithful.
The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.
We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.
And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.
Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious
I was raised in the greatest of homes… just a really great dad, and I miss him so much… he was a good man, a real simple man… Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.
If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.
As parents, you may confidently rear your children according to Gods Word. While bringing up your children, you are to remember that your children are not your ‘possessions‘ but instead are the Lords gift to you. You are to exercise faithful stewardship in their lives.
The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.
I am steady with my wife. I’m faithful to my wife.
God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.
If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get a celestial resurrection.
Let the people be led by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and the finger of God will be made manifest before them day by day in their progress to eternal happiness; for this is the privilege of the faithful.
Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.
What’s worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical and appears to have no ideology at all? Neither one of those things is great.
now you play the loving woman, I play the faithful man
Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and joy toward all creatures and pass on to them the gifts of salvation…Let yourselves be guided by the Holy Spirit to be the leaven of new life, salt of the earth and light of the world.
A man is only as faithful as his options.
Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
The only good Philip K. Dick film is ‘Total Recall.’ It’s faithful to the book. Arnie gets it.
Perhaps we should stop talking about being faithful to have a quiet time with God each day, as if we were doing something to earn a reward. It would be better to talk about the privilege of spending time with the God of the universe and the importance for our own sake of being consistent in that practice.
We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.
You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness. Recognize your divine birthright as daughters of our Heavenly Father.
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
THANKS: Be Grateful for what God has given you GIVING: Be Faithful with what God has given you.
God has great plans for you, directed towards helping you do what Jesus Christ did when He was on earth. This requires you do resist temptation vigorously, with special confidence in the assistance of His Divine Goodness. Courage then, Monsieur. Be faithful to Him, and the Divine Goodness will be favorable to you.
A dog is faithful, a woman never.
When we face difficulties and still remain faithful to Krishna and spiritual master we access the infinite mercy of their hearts.
And whoso is found a faithful, a just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord, and shall inherit eternal life.
Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.
Your tragedy is God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful.
Opportunities energize the faithful and paralyze the fearful.
I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman
We know that God works for all things together for the good of those who love Him and that God is faithful. We will fail God, we will fail our family and our family might fail us at times, but God never fails us.
Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
Dear young people, don’t be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.
Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation.
I’m a devout individual so I remain faithful to my church.
Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.
Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind–But how could I forget thee?
Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration – a blessed trinity worthy of public support.
The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ’s part on Himself, and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord’s.
I’m practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don’t know what it is. But I’ve been a straphanger all my life; I know what it’s like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.
Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.
Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without relish, the contentment of doing God’s will. Thus after the winter the spring will come, with its flowers, and you will hear the voice of the turtle-dove in this land.
I don’t think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind.
I know for sure that God can do whatever He wants to do. He’s called me to be faithful to do good art, to lift up Jesus and that’s what I’m going to do and I’ll let the Lord take care of the rest.
Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
All through the ages prophets have looked down through the corridors of time to our day. Billions of the deceased and those yet to be born have their eyes on us. Make no mistake about it…this is a marked generation. There has never been more expected of the faithful in such a short time than there is of us.
What’s worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical and appears to have no ideology at all? Neither one of those things is great.
Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
If you wonder how long Ill be faithful. I’ll be happy to tell you again. I’m gonna love you forever & ever, forever & ever amen.
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.
Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.
If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.
The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.
Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must do all that you can to recite it with fervour. Get right down, at the feet of Jesus: it is a good thing to make oneself small in the presence of so great a God.
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.
I’ve lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of ‘The Washington Post‘ ever since.
God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So to confess is to breathe in and to ask God to forgive me of my sins. And as we breathe out we breathe out the impure air and breathe in the pure air. I would say the pure air is knowing that God has forgiven us of our sins.
No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
I feel I’ve been faithful to my convictions and my desires. I’ve taken small, firm steps and I try to do things as beautiful and artistically as I can.
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time – unless she happens to take a second.
If you aren’t faithful to your music or your people or your work, then who will care anymore?
I believe that when we treat homosexual people as pariahs and push them outside our communities and churches; when we blame them for who they are; when we deny them our blessing on their commitment to lifelong, faithful relationships, we make them doubt whether they are children of God, made in his image.
You know the people who have the bumper stickers that say “Windows 95 = Mac ’89”? These are the faithful, and I respect their faith, but I would like to respectfully point out that faith is dangerous. Religion kills.
May those who enjoy the faithful ministry of the Word feel exceedingly thankful for it. There are few blessings on Earth greater for a believer; and yet the Lord is frequently obliged to teach us the value of this blessing by depriving us of it for a season.
REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
On this day, when we’re celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage – to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it’s a good idea.
Those faithful Mormon pioneers … were willing to put everything on the altar to sacrifice for and defend their God and their faith.
Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.
Only one thing makes a man a man. He loves his wife, is faithful to her, and puts his wife and kids as the most important things in life.
Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour.
Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way.
Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
I would like now to shed light in your heart on the truth of things, for it was not my will, but that of the Father and my Rabbi, which was done that faithful night.
Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.
A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.
We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic… I’m very faithful.
We can’t know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.
He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.
Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward.В A good man will endure all things to honor Christ, and even dispose of the whole world, and all in it, to save his soul.
When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls. You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him, and not to spoil his work by our shortcomings.
I’m really trying to just keep this internal, and be faithful to the story and the characters, and keep 99.9% of my brain there, serving the story. It’s a great network. It’s the golden network of cable, so it’s totally an honor to be there and tell this story, but I try not to think about anything beyond that.
I want to live in such a way that, if it is only twenty-nine more days or twenty-nine more weeks, or if it is twenty-nine more years or more, I want to faithful with each one of those-that I could go and meet the Lord without regrets, without unfinished business.
I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.
The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord’s way. Our hearts will be knit together in unity. God has promised that blessing to His faithful Saints whatever their differences in background and whatever conflict rages around them.
Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren’t always faithful to the core values of science.
God in fact does not change: he is faithful to himself.
The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it strange. The claims of money to be celebrated in verse might well seem to be no less than those of faithful dogs, beautiful women, or jugs of wine.
The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ.
…I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then… find wholeness in the torn world.
For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer.
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.
Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.
Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.
God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.
When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
Then if my friendships break and bend, There’s little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.
What I can tell you is that I serve a faithful God who answers prayers.
The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.
The universal Church of the faithful is one outside of which none is saved.
To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.
The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest.
Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful.
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.
I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.
God is faithful even when his children are not.
I live near Amish communities in northern Indiana and I have the greatest respect for such faithful people. They attempt to live their faith more fully by separating themselves, as far as possible, from the wider culture and its influences. That has never been the teaching of the Catholic faith.
God didn’t call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.
It seems that once you achieve something large, the target on your back grows. But I always want to look at life as the glass is half full versus half empty. My father taught me this at an early age – that God is faithful (Romans 8:28), and that in the midst of hardship or attack, God has your back.
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
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.
What a wonderful faculty is memory! — the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds — this faithful witness against us for good or evil.
I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful.
I’m a huge, huge fan of almost everything British. I love ‘The Office’ – I was a faithful follower of that show before the American version.
I had to learn how to be faithful. When I was dating around and moving from woman to woman, I did not understand and know how to be faithful. Subsequently, once I entered into marriage, I had to learn how to be with one woman. For me, that was the biggest challenge of all.
I promise you that all who faithfully attend to temple work will be blessed
beyond measure. Your families will draw closer to the Lord, unseen angels
will watch over your loved ones when satanic forces tempt them, the veil
will be thin, and great spiritual experiences
will distill upon this people.
beyond measure. Your families will draw closer to the Lord, unseen angels
will watch over your loved ones when satanic forces tempt them, the veil
will be thin, and great spiritual experiences
will distill upon this people.
My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
Would I like kids? If I knew I could be – and how could I put this delicately – faithful, then yes. I do like kids.
Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.
It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.
Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth.
As I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is, I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I’ll hear the words, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.
Our message and methodology have changed, do change, and must change if we are faithful to the ongoing and unchanging mission of Jesus Christ.
For those of you who pray, I ask that you pray that I will always judge with wisdom and integrity as a faithful servant of the law.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are, and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality, it connects you to reality.
Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. … In this way the soul can become like soft clay in the hands of the Master.
I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
A disciplined conscience is a man’s best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.
God will always do great things with people who are willing to be faithful in the small things.
By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in His own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude.
I really don’t care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
May we be faithful followers of Christ, examples of righteousness, thus becoming lights in the world.
If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long.
Husbands and wives, first, be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.
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.’
There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called “luck,” which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.
If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.
Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.
Be faithful that your authentic power is all you need to truly share your light with the world.
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.
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man?
There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.
Comrade Kim Jong Il, who was faithful to Comrade Kim Il Sung‘s ideas and cause, led our revolution along the glorious road of victory, braving the severe trials and adversities of history by dint of his unique leadership of the Songun revolution.
Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition. . . . all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth.
Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.
Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?
Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
If you give me half a chance. I’ll prove this to you. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true.
Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.
Let us listen to what all the faithful say, because in every one of them the Spirit of God breathes.
