Faithful Quotes - Page 36

• Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political force simply through the faithful representation of the spirit. It is a political act to create an image of the self or of the collective.

  Lewis Hyde

  Art, Self, Political

  Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.258, Vintage

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• How we can stay faithful to the people that have supported us from the beginning is a thought in my mind. I always want to keep that part of it alive.

  Dave Matthews

  People, Mind, Alive

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• I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Reading, Letters, Able

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• Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the years the church has suffered under forceful preachers and winning orators, under compelling pulpiteers and clerical bigmouths with egos to match, how nice to hear that Jesus expects preachers in their congregations to be nothing more than faithful household cooks.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Nice, Winning

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• The easiest time to be faithful is during a time of crisis. The hardest time for faith is when all is well.

  George W. Bush

  Times Of Crisis, Hardest Times, Wells

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• Settle this in your heart: Whether I am up or down, the Lord Jesus is the same. Whether I sing or sigh, the promise is true and the Promiser is faithful. Whether I stand on the summit or am hidden in the vale the covenant stands fast and everlasting love abides.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Promise

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• There is joy guaranteed for the faithful.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Joy

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• We are not here to be successful, we are here to be FAITHFUL

  Mother Teresa

  Success, Successful, Being Faithful

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• I lift my hands to believe again. You are my refuge. You are my strength. As I pour out my heart, these things I remember, You are faithful, God, forever.

  Chris Tomlin

  Believe, Heart, Remember You

  Song: I Lift My Hands, 2010

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• As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.

  George Whitefield

  Blessing, People, Giving

  George Whitefield (1904). “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...”, p.880, CCEL

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• Don't expect anything from anybody, this is also a great freedom. Don't expect things to be different or people to be in service to you or your own life or projections. Feel gradually that natural feeling of detachment. Dont watch constantly with the eyes of relationship and past and so on. Stay faithful to your own discovery, leave the rest and life will take care of it.

  Mooji

  Eye, Past, Discovery

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• If Christians cannot extend grace through faithful presence within the body of believers, they will not be able to extend grace to those outside.

  James Davison Hunter

  Christian, Grace, Body

  James Davison Hunter (2010). “To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World”, p.244, Oxford University Press

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• God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.

  Mother Teresa

  Important, Doe, Demand

  "In My Own Words".

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• We need courage if we are to be faithful to the Gospel.

  Pope Francis

  Needs, Being Faithful, Ifs

  "Picture of Pope kissing, blessing disfigured man at Vatican goes viral", www.foxnews.com. November 8, 2013.

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• We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God.

  Alistair Begg

  Pain, Suffering, May

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• Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part on Himself, and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Suffering, Events, Care

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.74

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• The Lord has a great work for each of us to do. You may wonder how this can be. You may feel that there is nothing special or superior about you or your ability. ... The Lord can do remarkable miracles with a person of ordinary ability who is humble, faithful, and diligent in serving the Lord and seeks to improve himself. This is because God is the ultimate source of power.

  James E. Faust

  Humble, Miracle, Special

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• To you, Mom and Dad, and to all the moms and dads and
  families and faithful people everywhere, I thank you for sacrificing for your
  children, and for other people's children, for wanting so much to give them
  advantages you never had, for wanting so much to give them the happiest life
  you could provide

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Mom, Children, Dad

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• Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Hands, Grace

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• God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.

  Mother Teresa

  Successful, Demand, Being Faithful

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• Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must do all that you can to recite it with fervour. Get right down, at the feet of Jesus: it is a good thing to make oneself small in the presence of so great a God.

  Columba Marmion

  Jesus, Feet, Catholic

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• God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust, pious and impious, passionate and dispassionate, monks and laymen, wise and simple, healthy and sick, young and old just as the effusion of light, the sight of the sun, and the changes of the seasons are for all alike; 'for there is no respect of persons with God.'

  John Climacus

  Wise, Christian, Simple

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• Faithful parents can invite the power of heaven to influence their children. Nevertheless, those children remain agents unto themselves, and the choice to repent or not ultimately is theirs.

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Choices, Parent

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• The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.

  Martin Luther

  Tasks, Treasure, Enough

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• Endings are not our destiny...They are merely interruptions-temporary pauses that one day will seem small compared to the eternal joy awaiting the faithful.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Destiny, Joy, One Day

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