#faithful

The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#area #being #country #dangerous #designed

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. ↗

— Walter Scott

#faithful #nail #near #placed #rusty

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#like #servant #serve #would #you

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#i #music #only #painting #things

The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it unfolded before them. I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but all bad things. I call it chosen ignorance. This modified form of ignorance is found in people who, if confronted with certain truths realize that they have to accept them and thereby acknowledge evil, and that scares them. Opening up and letting the truth in might knock them off their perceived center. It is too hard, period." (VOTF - Voice of the Faithful - a Catholic group that wants to change the Church, keep the faith.) ↗

— Charles L. Bailey Jr.

#catholic #church #confronted #disbelief #evil

It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies. ↗

— Ranulph Fiennes

#courageous #dog #faithful #courage

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option. ↗

— Criss Jami

#circumstances #faith #faithfulness #god #imparting

What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#discipleship #failure #faithfulness #prodigal #faith

Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results. ↗

— David A. Bednar

#righteousness #faith

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first. ↗

— Thomas More

#die #faithful #first #god #i