Quotes About Loyalty

The spiritual reality for many of us is that the one thing is not the Lord. And the danger in that reality is this: your one thing will control your heart, and whatever controls your heart will exercise inescapable influence over your words, choices, and actions. Your one thing will become that which shapes and directs your responses to the situations and relationships of your daily life. If the Lord isn't your one thing, the thing that is your one thing will be your functional lord.

Yes, it is true—God will remain faithful even when you're not, because his faithfulness rests on who he is, not on what you're doing.

God will remain faithful even when you're not, because his faithfulness rests on who he is, not on what you're doing.

We're all spiritually promiscuous, running from lover to lover, giving the loyalty of our hearts to things other than God.

Here's the bottom line: you and I struggle with the faithfulness of God, not because he has been unfaithful, but because we have.

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his own soul?" (Mark 8:36).

This means that if you obey him for a thousand years, you will have no more of his favor than when you first believed.

People move from church to church as if the churches in their community are nothing more than ecclesiastical department stores. They're shopping for just the right preacher, women's ministry, youth ministry, or worship style. These Christians' relationship to the church mirrors my relationship to Macy's.

Sure, there are times I get tired and wish he'd up and leave, but I don't get despondent.

La confianza es estar tan convencido de que puedes apoyarte en la integridad, fortaleza, carácter y fidelidad de la otra persona que estás dispuesto a ponerte bajo el cuidado de él o ella.

Sir John, once he

Harriet, Georgiana, and Bess formed a bond so tight that Harriet would later say it "made it a rule never to conceal anything great or small from each other than concerned ourselves, and never to import anything that concerned our respective friends unless by their desire or consent." These women formed a confederacy of feminine freedom-a freedom they vigorously exercised.

My goal in life is to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.

No important relationship survives if trust is totally lost.

to be loyal to Christ, one must be vulnerable to others.

Theory became a personal badge, chosen as one might choose a party or church. It meant enlisting with a group, and theories began to have groupies rather like pop stars do.

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

In fact, I'd go one better, and venture that there's nothing more important than friendship: if it should then take you to the ends of the earth with someone you like and admire, so much the better

I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.

You should never tell your best friend anything you wouldn´t be prepared to tell your worst enemy.

I have a message for your daughter," said Cale. "I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool wind plays with her hair, it may be my shadow passing by." And with this terrible threat he faced forward and the procession started once more. In less than a minute they were gone. In her shady room Arbell Swan-Neck stood white and cold as alabaster.

Oxytocin, it seems, oils the wheels of social life, enhancing trust, generosity, empathy and loyalty.

In long-term relationships, all the romantic gestures in the world are meaningless if you aren't trustworthy or don't do your share of the work.

The black man was expected to follow the dictates of Sol and the white masters. Good Negro communists were to be unquestioning Negro communists, who sat quietly and did as they were told. A good black communist listened to the white communist—his comradely master. For all their bluster about elevating blacks, this was how communists treated their African-American brothers.