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• Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can succeed in our sacred callings.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Humble, Preparation

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• 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

  Spiritual, Men, Allies

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• Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

  John Ortberg

  Trying, Knowing God, Knows

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strong, Maids, Servant

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Obedience, Command

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• Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Jesus, Desire

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• When the people of God abandoned the covenant of love and fidelity, drawn as we are by the appeal of shallow, empty pleasures, God removed every possible obstruction to the covenant by being faithful for us, by becoming like us and subjecting Himself to the very worst within us, loving us all the way to the cross and all the way out of the grave.

  Rachel Held Evans

  People, Covenant, Way

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• When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is the opposite of "just anything".

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Opposites, Design, Individuality

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.26, Penguin

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• We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.

  Marcel Proust

  Remember, Being Faithful, Known

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's”, ePenguin

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• For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as well as citizenship, civilization, faith, and the whole notion of the true, the good, and the faithful.

  Os Guinness

  Art, Reading, Civilization

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• The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is.

  Barbara Cartland

  Girl, Morning, Husband

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• With the world in turmoil and doubt, the American people, faithful to the values that have always defined America's identity, have expressed with force their faith in progress and the future. At a time when we must face huge challenges together, your election has raised enormous hope in France, in Europe and beyond.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Europe, America, People

  "Electing Obama Sends Message To The World". "NPR News" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. November 05, 2008.

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• I want to live as long as I can do good; but not an hour longer than I can live in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, with my Father in heaven, my Savior, and with the faithful Latter-day Saints. To live any longer than this would be torment and misery to me. When my work is done I am ready to go; but I want to do what is required of me.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Father, Long, Heaven

  Wilford Woodruff (2015). “Leaves from my Journal”, p.93, Noodle-Doo Studios

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• The faithful witness, like...Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists obsession with solution. He betrays society when he is silent...He is true to himself and to people when his clarity causes disquiet.

  John Ralston Saul

  People, Causes, Clarity

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• It is You Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who gives me strength and are always close to the suffering soul. Creatures will abandon a person in his suffering, but You, O Lord, are faithful.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Jesus, Giving, Soul

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• I think He intends to try you like gold in the crucible, so as to number you amongst His most faithful servants. Therefore you must lovingly embrace all occasions of suffering, considering them as precious tokens of His love. To suffer in silence and without complaint is what He asks of you.

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Thinking, Numbers, Faithful Servants

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• Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.

  John Vianney

  Angel, Night, Guardian

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• The person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants.

  Winston Churchill

  Faithful Servants, Realization, Earth

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• We must never let fear... divert us from our faith and faithful living. Every person in every era has had to walk by faith into what has always been some uncertainty. This is the plan. Just be faithful. God is in charge. He knows your name and He knows your need.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Names, Needs, Eras

  "This, the Greatest of All Dispensations". Fireside address, www.lds.org. July 2007.

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• [Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

  Aristophanes

  War, Winning, Men

  "Lysistrata". Book by Aristophanes, 411 BCE.

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• The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Hypocrisy, Messages

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.33, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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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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• If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Principles, Aliens, Difficult

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And what renders him so unmarriageable?” Eloise asked. Francesca leveled a serious stare at her older sister. Eloise was mad if she thought she should set her cap for Michael. “Well?” Eloise prodded. “He could never remain faithful to one woman,” Fran-cesca said, “and I doubt you‟d be willing to put up with infidelities.” “No,” Eloise murmured, “not unless he‟d be willing to put up with severe bodily injury.

  Julia Quinn

  Mad, Infidelity, Doubt

  Julia Quinn (2006). “When he was wicked”

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• He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy.” “Watch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. You’ve never seen so many of the faithful who’re armed.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Sexy, Jesus, Sound

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2011). “Call Me Irresistible: A Novel”, p.11, Harper Collins

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