Faithful Quotes - Page 31

• I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, Want, Mystery

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 27, 2009.

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• About cars: They can list with faithful accuracy each model they acquired through the years, how much they paid for each one, its main faults, and why they traded it in - but they couldn't list as many close friends.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Simple, Years, Car

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• Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.

  Thomas Berry

  Wall, Integrity, Fiction

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• Not everyone possesses boundless energy or a conspicuous talent. We are not equally blessed with great intellect or physical beauty or emotional strength. But we have all been given the same ability to be faithful.

  Gigi Graham

  Blessed, Commitment, Emotional

  Gigi Graham Tchividjian (2000). “Weatherproof Your Heart”, Spire

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• Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition. . . . all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth.

  Guy Consolmagno

  Song, Intuition, Intellectual

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• Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Art, Mean, Greatness

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they remain the same paintings, ever faithful, ever convincing. To a marvelous extent they carry their own light within. For their truth is not that of a perfect replica, it is the truth of art.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Truth, Sunshine

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• Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Being Faithful, Mills

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• There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Perfect, Gold

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• By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

  Ovid

  Art, Study, Gentle

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• I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to one another.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Real, Sacrifice, Support

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.105

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• Faithful to the word given and the idea had.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Ideas, Given

  "Message". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Poem "D. Pedro", Verses 11-12, 1934.

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• The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.

  Billy Graham

  Bible, Jesus, Wrath

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• Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.

  Paul Gauguin

  Work

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.

  George Crabbe

  Christian, Race, Church

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.98

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• Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!

  George Crabbe

  Art, Men, Friendly

  George Crabbe, Allan Cunningham (1855). “George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales”, p.146

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• In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.

  Robert Underwood Johnson

  Rome, Flames, Tears

  Robert Underwood Johnson (1908). “Poems”

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• O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

  Dante Alighieri

  Littles, Failing, Thee

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song III, 8, 1321.

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• Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

  Robert Lloyd

  Men, Mirrors, Mind

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• It seems to me that Mr. Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young heart even though his body had grown old. He saw straight through to the cosmic order of things, and he knew that life is not held only in flesh and bone, but also in those objects - a good, faithful pair of shoes; a reliable car; a pen that always works; a bike that has taken you many a mile.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Taken, Heart, Eye

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• Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.

  William Henry Willimon

  Religion, Scripture, Firsts

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• I was also very lucky to be able to work with talented people while I was learning. I didn't actually go to fashion school. I worked with Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy which was a really pivotal experience for me. He taught me a lot about being faithful to your own voice and to really believe in your own voice and that's made a big difference.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Fashion, Believe, School

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Winning, Two

  "Obama wants new approach after shutdown" by Tom Cohen, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2013.

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• If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit burns brightly; and, if we die, deplores us for ever, and loves still equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the faithful bosom--whence it passes with the pure soul, beyond death; surely it shall be immortal!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Soul, Darkness

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Newcomes: Thackeray Collections”, p.446, 谷月社

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• The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.

  Confucius

  Learning, Way, Lovers

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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