Faithful Quotes

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.
Ayelet Waldman

Hope, Truth, Experience

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
Yves Saint Laurent

Women, Famous, Joy

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.
Richard Russo

Time, Book, Hard

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
James Baldwin

Free, Equal, Becoming

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.
John Woolman

Society, Heart, Feeling

Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
David Mitchell

May, Language, Degree

I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.
David Boreanaz

Marriage, Wife, Tainted

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?
Andrew Greeley

Love, Best, Sex

I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.
Elizabeth Hurley

Time, Indeed, Loyal

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.
James Beattie

Love, Jealousy, Husband

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.
Robert Grosseteste

Before, Keep, Honest

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
Robert Grosseteste

Good, Honest, Office

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.
Eamon de Valera

Time, End, Dead

The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
Adam Clarke

Men, Words, Old

Bring the army of the faithful through.
George Meredith

Through, Bring, Army

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.
William Ames

God, Live, Blessings

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
Maggie Gallagher

Nice, Jesus, Body

God has been faithful time and again to surround me with people that sharpen me and that make me better.
TobyMac

Time, God, Again

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
William Bartram

Nature, Human, Seem

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
William Gurnall

Waiting, Lost, Soul

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
Goldwin Smith

Work, Nature, Human

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
George Crabbe

End, Friend, Joy

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.
Maria Monk

Everything, Impossible, She

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.
Jupiter Hammon

Men, Service, Eye

I never did drugs and I can't really drink because I have zero tolerance for alcohol, so my vice became women. I was never faithful to most of them.
Scott Baio

Women, Alcohol, Tolerance

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell

Love, Passion, Often

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Character, Sense, Smell

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.
Richard V. Allen

Person, Leader, Team

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
John Sergeant Wise

Mother, Sense, Service

However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.
Walter Martin

God, Live, Spiritual

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