Pastoral Resources

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

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

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.