Quotes About Loyalty

To believe in Jesus is to bow twice and then to obey forever

Women found in me a man who could keep a love secret.

To deceive someone who trusts you is to enter a hell that can take you to the brink of madness.

Yes, I know…I am always your friend.

He must live up to his friend's trust— that alone mattered.

When even a child like me—with no merit—is given respect and affection in such a manner, then he will determine to do the best he can. Your Grace lays too many harsh words upon Lord Hamlet. When you speak in this manner, it leaves him with no legs to stand on. He is the master to whom we subjects will offer up our lives in order to defend our kingdom. You should take better care of him.

What separates us from insects? It's so stupid. I have lived and worked all my life never forgetting that everything is for the sake of Denmark, no matter what sad or painful things happen. But now I realize I am a fool. I have been deceived—by the late king, the present king, and even by Hamlet. They all have deceived me.

I grew up loyal, so don't let me die a traitor.

Acquaintances are not always friends

Never turn your back against what you swore to protect with your life.

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect -- simply a confession of failures.

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

In married life three is company and two none.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

Many of us are faithful to our ideas about Jesus Christ, but how many of us are faithful to Jesus Himself?

To believe is to commit. In the area of intellectual learning I commit myself mentally, and reject anything not related to that belief. In the realm of personal belief I commit myself morally to my convictions and refuse to compromise. But in intimate personal belief I commit myself spiritually to Jesus Christ and make a determination to be dominated by Him alone.

When a moral person is confronted with contempt, immorality, disloyalty, or dishonesty, he is so repulsed by the offense that he turns away and in despair closes his heart to the offender. But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.

Our Lord mentions may be a competitive relationship. I may prefer to belong to my mother, or to my wife, or to myself; then says Jesus, you cannot be My disciple. This does not mean I will not be saved, but it does mean that I cannot be "His.

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him. The goal of the call of God is His satisfaction, not simply that we should do something for Him. We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles. Are we more devoted to service than we are to Jesus Christ Himself?

You can never be the same after the unveiling of a truth. That moment marks you as one who either continues on with even more devotion as a disciple of Jesus Christ, or as one who turns to go back as a deserter.

We take such liberties with our circumstances, we do not believe God engineers them, although we say we do; we treat the things that happen as if they were engineered by men. To be faithful in every circumstance means that we have only one loyalty, and that is to our Lord. Suddenly God breaks up a particular set of circumstances

We say, "But this is so strict. Surely He does not require that of me." Our Lord is strict, and He does require that of us.