Quotes About Constancy

While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like 'wormwood and gall'), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God's love, new every morning. God's mercy is not spent even with our worst misdeeds.

It was always reassuring to find that something loved hasn't changed.

Youth and age, she thought. Beginnings and endings, connections and constancy. And, love.

Youth and age, she thought. Beginnings and endings, connections and constancy. And, love. She snapped the embrace, but that wasn't it. She snapped the glitter of tears, and still, no. Then Alison lowered her forehead to her grandmother's, and even as her lips curved, a single tear slid down her cheek while the dress glowed and glittered behind them. Perfect. The blue butterfly.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

As for the beauty of women, it is like the light on the sea, never constant to a single wave. They all have it; they all lose it. Now she is dull and thick as bacon; now transparent as a hanging glass.

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

She kisses his lips; he kisses hers; they solemnly bless each other. The spare hand does not tremble as he releases it; nothing worse than a sweet, bright constancy is in the patient face. She goes next before him—is gone; the knitting-women count Twenty-Two. "I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

Trust in nothing but in Providence and your own efforts. Never separate the two, like the heathen waggoner. Constancy in love is a good thing, but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Some things in our lives are as constant as the sun and others as fleeting as a shooting star. But we are thankful for all light that brightens our paths.

Be thoroughly assured of the constancy of your disposition, and the solidity of your motives, before you totally engage in retirement.

DURING THE COURSE of his long and distinguished career, the Irish poet W. B. Yeats often changed his themes, style, and personal philosophy, sometimes leaving behind the audience he had cultivated. When he was upbraided for this confusing constancy of change, he replied: The friends have it I do wrong Whenever I remake my song Should know what issue is at stake. It is myself that I remake. 54

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier, returning to the range, admire? Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level:

There's no substitute for loyalty.

The stars are always shining...even when you can't see them.

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.

I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant.

The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

I would like to be out there every day and be that one steady guy that everybody can lean on.

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.