Quotes About Faithfulness

Lord Jesus, there's a lot more to friendship than praying for my friends, but I haven't really been a good friend unless I've prayed and continue to pray for them.

But when dawn broke and day crept in over each empty, blood-spattered bench, the floor of the mead-hall where they had feasted would be slick with slaughter. And so they died, faithful retainers, and my following dwindled.

Not just when its easy. All the time.

I want to tell him that deep down each time Hannah looked at him she was grateful it was him because Jude did something that the others didn't. He came back for her.

When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.

Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff.

Quando dici una bugia, dopo devi essere coerente. Lo sanno tutti.

In deep disappointment I have wept over the laxity of the church. But be assured that my tears have been tears of love. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

On feeling guilty about lack of 'productivity': In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part of the small daily fidelity to which we are called, beside the faithfulness of being attentive to God. We can be well simply by our diligence in being who we are at the moment. --Marva Dawn, Being Well When We're Ill pg 137

Good old Watson!You are the one fixed point in a changing age.

Dogs don't make mistakes.

Better alone than amongst traitors.

He foresaw my every fall, my every sin, my every backsliding; yet, nevertheless, fixed His heart upon me.

Josiah Royce

I hate cheating. I won't put up with it. I don't do it myself.

In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil.

A devotion to principle, whether that principle makes much sense to the rest of us, is usually something to marvel at.

How do we live in freedom? We live in freedom when we come to believe, know, receive, and embrace the boundless love of God for us—when we are captured by his goodness, his faithfulness, his honor, his sacrifice, his heart that yearns for us. Then we can dance for an audience of One. Because we are so completely loved. We are safe and secure in the love of God. Every moment of our lives.

Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.

Dance with the one that brought you

Cheerfulness will help you draw strangers, cleverness will help gain acquaintances, faithfulness will help you keep companions, and kindness will help you multiply friends.

Don't give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround.

And when other people see me play basketball...the way I treat my teammates, the opponents, the refs, that's all a reflection of God's image and God's love so that's the stuff I try to focus on.

If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.