Fidelity

"FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed."

"No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity."

"This was her finest role and the hardest one to play. Choosing between heaven and a ridiculous fidelity, preferring oneself to eternity or losing oneself in God is the age-old tragedy in which each must play his part."

"When one considers Greek love, it is, in accordance with its concept, essentially faithful, just because it is psychical; and it is some accidental factor in the particular individual that he loves many, and with regard to the many he loves, it is again accidental every time he loves a new one; when he is in love with one, he does not think of the next one. Don Juan, on the contrary, is a seducer from the ground up. His love is not psychical but sensuous, and sensuous love, in accordance with its concept, is not faithful, but absolutely faithless; it loves not one but all, that is to say, it seduces all. In exists only in the moment, but the moment, in terms of its concept, is the sum of moments, and so we have the seducer."

"The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her."

"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."

"Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends."

"Fidelity is not the reason for blunting attention."

"I never will desert Mr. Micawber."

"Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak, Not weak of soul.—I will but hold in sight Thy marvelous beauty.—Here is She you seek!"

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

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."

"Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood."

"Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides."

"Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt."

"O, where is loyalty? If it be banish'd from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?"

"You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel."

"To be true to each other, let 'appen what maäy Till the end o' the daäy An the last loäd hoäm."

"To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true."

"The secret of all our dryness, the root of all our weakness, our want of fruit and progress, our dearth and desolation, is, that we do not follow Christ. First, we do not believe that He has any particular care of us, or personal interest in our lives, and then, falling away at that point from His lead, we drop into ourselves, to do a few casual works of duty, in which neither we nor others are greatly blessed."

"Be but faithful, that is all; Go right on, and close behind thee There shall follow still and find thee Help, sure help."

"Never do what you cannot ask Christ to bless; and never go into any place or any pursuit in which you cannot ask Christ Jesus to go with you."

"If, after an absolute consecration to Him, and a conviction in conscience that He requires something of us, we hesitate, delay, lose courage, dilute what He would have us do, indulge fear for our comfort or safety, desire to shield ourselves from suffering and obloquy, or seek to find some excuse for not performing a difficult or painful duty, we are truly guilty in His sight."

"Only be steadfast, never waver, Nor seek earth's favor, But rest; Thou knowest what God wills must be For all His creatures — so for thee — The best."

"There are two paths in which the Christian follows Christ in this world, — paths which are always parallel, and which often merge into one, — the path of integrity, and the path of benevolence. In doing right and in doing good the Christian is a follower of Christ."

"Believing on Christ, learning of Christ, following Christ, — this is what it is to be a Christian. You must believe on Him that you may learn of Him. You must learn of Him that you may follow Him. But believing is nothing, and learning is less than nothing, if they do not result in faithful following."

"Get into sympathy with Jesus. Seek His presence, seek His help. And walking through the world in His company, you will be as balm in the bleakest weather, a benediction in the wildest scene."

"If washed in Jesus' blood, Then bear His likeness too, And as you onward press Ask, "What would Jesus do?""

"God never gave a man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it."

"Oh! it irradiates all our days with lofty beauty, and it makes them all hallowed and divine, when we feel that not the apparent greatness, not the prominence nor noise with which it is done, nor the external consequences which flow from it, but the motive from which it flowed, determines the worth of our deed in God's eyes. Faithfulness is faithfulness, on whatsoever scale it be set forth."

"The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God."

"Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial."

"Precious Saviour! glorious Forerunner! oh, give us grace to follow Thee; and whenever tempted to relax our efforts, or loiter on our journey, or complain of the way, may we remember that Thou hast traveled every step of the way before us, and art now waiting to welcome us into Thy presence and glory."

"It is a good thing to follow Jesus with our eyes open. That is walking both by sight and faith. But it is better to follow Jesus blindly than not to follow at all."

"When the fight thickens the captain says, "Steady, boys;" and it is their steadiness which pulls the soldiers through. Fitful soldiers are rarely useful ones. That is our great need to-day, steady Christians — men and women you can count on. Many Christians are like intermittent springs. They flow to-day — to-morrow you cannot get a thimbleful of religious activity out of the dried channel of their lives."

"Loyal people never stab you in the back and a true lover never gets tired never grows bored never changes and never leaves no matter the circumstances surrounding him So do not give in or be humble to someone who insulted you do not yearn or long for someone who is cheap and do not knock on the door of someone who turned you down. Be arrogant do not be weak in front of someone who is against you be strong, and do not reveal your secrets There is no limit except for those who accept complaints. To God alone, be humble, but to the rest be strong, for the rope of interest is short even if it is long, and the rope of affection is long even if it is small Remember to treat the genuine person who will stand with you in your time of difficulty who does not ask you for a response or a reproach with kindness We do not sever family ties but we sever the malice of the relative and the stranger the bad companion and the two-faced We sever hatred envy lying, backbiting and gossip We sever those who say about us what is not in us and those who allow themselves to harm you even with a word, in our absence or presence."