Quotes About Faithfulness

Ella nunca me había amado, pero me tenía confianza, el cariño que despierta un criado leal.

Ik ben benieuwd of je nog verliefder op me wordt of me in de steek laat voor een van die ondeugende Peruaanse meisjes, brave jongen.' 'Wat ondeugende Peruaanse meisjes betreft heb ik aan jou mijn handen al meer dan vol.

We don't fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not converted; we fail only if we don't faithfully tell the gospel at all. Evangelism itself isn't converting people; it's telling them that they need to be converted and telling them how they can be.

God uses not so much gifts for evangelism (though there is a biblical gift of evangelism) but the faithfulness of thousands and millions of Christians who would never say evangelism is their gift. Your conclusion that you are not gifted for a particular task does not absolve you of responsibility to obey. You may conclude that evangelism is not your gift, but it is still your duty. Not

But if you define success in terms of faithfulness, then you are in a position to persevere, because you are released from the demand of immediately observable results, freeing you for faithfulness to the Gospel's message and methods, leaving numbers to the Lord.

Christians should desire to live their lives as good and godly stewards like Jesus, investing their time, talent, and treasure for God's purposes.

Randy Alcorn describes his own learning about being a steward: If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets. He had entrusted—not given— to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

In my own Examen, then, I praydream—prayerfully daydream. I concretely imagine how I might approach the next twenty-four hours if I were to be God's hands and feet and voice.

He said, 'are you telling the truth?' I said, 'Yes. I always tell the truth.

You don't do things by halves. If you love a woman, you love her entirely. You give everything. You don't spend your time in cafes; you don't make love to other women; you don't take her for granted. Do you understand?

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. — Annie Dillard, from "Living Like Weasels," Teaching a Stone to Talk (HarperCollins, New York, 2009, Kindle Edition)

Character you either have or don't have. Bigfoot understood that there are two types of people in the world: those who do what they say they're going to do — and everyone else.

I wondered whether I wanted to hear more. The Jean business was long over, but even when you have ceased to love someone, that does not necessarily bring an indifference to a past shared together. Besides, though love may die, vanity lives on timelessly. I knew that I must be prepared to hear things I should not like. Yet, although where unfaithfulness reigns, ignorance may be preferable to knowledge, at the same time, once knowledge is brutally born, exactitude is preferable to uncertainty.

A fidelity extremely rare among one's friends.

There is no friend as loyal as a book. —ERNEST HEMINGWAY

If a husband be not master of his wife´s heart, he has no right to her fealty; if a wife ceases to love, she may cease to be true.

His feelings towards his friends were, that while they stuck to him he would stick to them; that he would work with them shoulder to shoulder; that he would be faithful to the faithful. He knew nothing of the beautiful love which can be true to a false friend.

Truth serves only its slaves.

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

Once I give my word, I don't care if the world comes to an end.

Denial of Saint Peter. To say to Christ: 'I will never deny Thee' was to deny him already, for it was supposing the source of faithfulness to be in himself and not in grace.