#faithfulness

Don't just ask God to use you; ask Him to use you up. Then pray more than you've ever prayed before to be able to keep that commitment! ↗

— Katie Brazelton

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Earthly friends may alter their minds regarding the work in which we are engaged; but if indeed we work for God, whoever may alter His mind regarding our service, He will not. Earthly friends may lose their ability to help us, however much they desire so to do; but He remains throughout eternity the infinitely Rich One. ↗

— George Mueller

#friendship #faith

Love may challenge and love may correct but love will never shame. Love may call us out to uncomfortable places but love will never cast us aside. Love may demand but will never demean. Love will never ask us to dim our light lest we shine too brightly. Love will never ask us to be less than we were created to be. By this we know God. By this we follow Jesus. By this we serve one another. Love. Not fear. ↗

— Peggy Haymes

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The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. (...) Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love #faith

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ↗

— Buddha

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Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Act II ↗

— William Shakespeare

#marriage #men #wisdom #women #faith

You have my whole heart. You always did. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#fidelity #love #faith

Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great. ↗

— Alex Harris

#faithfulness #life #strength-of-character #faith

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option. ↗

— Criss Jami

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What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus. ↗

— Brennan Manning

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