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• Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

  Christina Rossetti

  Love You, I Love Him, Love Is

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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• To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Memories, Remember, Reason

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.233, Vintage

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• When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds good behavior. At the same time Christ-like love refuses to endorse misbehavior. Jesus loved His apostles, but He wasn't silent when they were faithless. Jesus loved the people in the temple, but He didn't sit still when they were hypocritical.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Love Is, Discovery

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• Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Long, Evil, Principles

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”, p.315

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• So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

  John Milton

  Faith, Faithful, Found

  John Milton, Thomas Newton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.423

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• Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.

  W. H. Auden

  Sleep, Arms, Humans

  "Lullaby" l. 1 (1940)

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• This is a faithless old world. Men and women are hardheaded, pleasure-mad, money crazy. They write up their successes and say, "The power and might of my hand have done these things." God has been ruled out; consequently, the thrill and romance of true living are gone for most people.

  Lee Roberson

  Crazy, Writing, Men

  Lee Roberson (2000). “The Faith That Moves Mountains”, p.470, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Our moods may shift, but God's doesn't. Our minds may change, but God's doesn't. Our devotion may falter, but God's never does. Even if we are faithless, He is faithful, for He cannot betray himself. He is a sure God.

  Max Lucado

  Spiritual, Faithful, Mind

  Max Lucado (2013). “Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear”, p.187, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). “History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy”, p.115, Ozymandias Press

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• The attitude of mourning is a faithless attitude, an ignorant attitude. The more we know, the more fully we shall trust, for we shall feel with utter certainty that we and our dead are alike in the hands of perfect Power and perfect Wisdom, directed by perfect Love.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Death, Attitude, Hands

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (1997). “The Other Side of Death: Scientifically Examined and Carefully Described”, Kessinger Publishing

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• It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.

  Carl Jung

  Distance, Men, Tragedy

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Believe, Christ

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• He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications. -But, then, lovers have a proverbial power of balancing inverted pyramids, going to sea in sieves, and successfully performing other kindred feats impossible to a faithless and unbelieving generation.

  Lucas Malet

  Sea, Pyramids, Numbers

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• A faithless fan can make a team lose a game they have won.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Team, Inspiration

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• A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Faithful, Adultery, Concerned

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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• I want faith; but I am faithless

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Australia, Want

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• Old love, old love, / How can I be true? / Shall I be faithless to myself / Or to you?

  Sara Teasdale

  Old Love, Being True

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the life and grace of the waters of salvation. It is not cleansing which men find there, but soiling; their sins are not washed away, but only added to. That being "born again" does not bring forth sons to God but to the Devil. Born of a lie, they cannot inherit the things which Truth has promised; begotten by the faithless, they are deprived of the grace of faith.

  Cyprian

  Lying, Son, Men

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• Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Motivational, Believe, Thinking

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• I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me from love... duty, reason and decency, which upon other occasions have some power over me, are here useless. The Gospel is a language I do not understand when it opposes my passion... but when love has once been sincere how difficult it is to determine to love no more! 'Tis a thousand times more easy to renounce the world than love. I hate this deceitful, faithless world; I think no more of it.

  Peter Abelard

  Love, Hate, Philosophy

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• Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

  John Armstrong

  Heart, Trust Me, Virtue

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.58

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• What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Men, People

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.192, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.

  John Muir

  Strange, Wilderness, Made

  John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”

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• What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Passion, Night, Hands

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.32, Carcanet

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• When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.

  Marc Maron

  Suicide, Spiritual, Work Out

  "Q&A: Marc Maron on the Decline of Conversation, TV Stardom, Oligarchs, Self-Doubt & Cats". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 2, 2013.

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