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• What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin.

  John Piper

  Greatness, Wrath, Justice Of God

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• 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

  Jesus, Biblical, Wind

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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

  Faithful, Important, Doe

  "In My Own Words".

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• Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

  Billy Graham

  Eye, Calling

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.330, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away.

  Michael Lewis

  League, Might, Saws

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• To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a type of order in which, even on issues which to one are fundamental, others are allowed to pursue different ends. It is for this reason that to the liberal neither moral nor religious ideals are proper objects of coercion, while both conservatives and socialists recognize no such limits.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Religious, Commitment, Order

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• To lead a child (or anyone else!), even inadvertently, away from faithfulness, away from loyalty and bedrock belief simply because we want to be clever or independent is license no parent nor any other person has ever been given.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Loyalty, Children, Clever

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• Through the Savior's Atonement and by following these basic patterns of faithfulness, we receive "power from on high" to face the challenges of life. We need this divine power today more than ever.

  Robert D. Hales

  Challenges, Needs, Patterns

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• The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Strong, Maturity

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• Faithfulness to God requires your obedience, even when it’s difficult.

  Jim George

  Obedience, Difficult

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• The Spirit's fullness is not the reward of our faithfulness, but God's gift for our defeat. He was not given to the disciples in Acts 28 as the culmination and reward of their wonderful service, but in Acts 2 when they had proved themselves cowards, meeting behind closed doors.

  Roy Hession

  Doors, Coward, Rewards

  Roy Hession (2013). “Be Filled Now: The Holy Spirit’s Role in Helping Christians Attain Spiritual Maturity”, p.8, CLC Publications

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• Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Father, Way

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.77, Discovery House

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• The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.

  Donna Ball

  Divorce, Simple, Compromise

  Donna Ball (1997). “Just Before Dawn”, Signet

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• Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.

  Luce Irigaray

  Real, Self, Views

  Luce Irigaray (2015). “Building a New World”, p.75, Springer

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• Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Knowing, Reliability, Competence

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• Without a complex knowledge of one's place and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable that the place will be used carelessly, and eventually destroyed. Without such knowledge and faithfulness, moreover, the culture of a country will be superficial and decorative, functional only insofar as it may be a symbol of prestige, the affectation of an elite or "in" group.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, May, Groups

  Wendell Berry (2012). “A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural”, p.66, Counterpoint Press

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• He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.

  George MacDonald

  Class, Cities, Faithful

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.2730, Delphi Classics

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• The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.

  Rose Macaulay

  May, Pigeons, Return

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

  Jane Porter

  Confidence, People, Failing

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.208

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• Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.

  Sterling W Sill

  Procrastination, Apathy, Punctuality

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• Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service.

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Honesty, Integrity, Real

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• Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

  Boris Pasternak

  Lying, Salvation, Form

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• Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are- you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.

  Oswald Chambers

  Water, Heaven, Grace

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.64, Discovery House

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• The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Society, World

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• Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

  Lucy Larcom

  Enthusiasm, Privilege, Aim

  Lucy Larcom (1875). “An Idyl of Work”, p.9

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