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Faithful Quotes

On loyalty, accuracy, and staying true.

This page explores faithfulness in several forms, staying true in relationships, remaining accurate in translation, and even the reliability of a compass near disruptive influences. For more on devotion, visit the Good quotes page.

One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

Quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart.

Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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.

Quotes by William Bartram

Better Quotes

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Quotes by Walter Scott

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

Quotes by Tariq Ramadan

You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

Quotes by Stephen King

In a drama, you generally have to be very faithful to the script and the storyline, and it all has to fit together, and it's weighty and serious.

Quotes by Sophie Rundle

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Quotes by Sextus Propertius

Church Quotes

Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.

Quotes by Samuel Larsen

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

Quotes by Saint Patrick

Each faithful young woman in the Church proclaims that individual worth is one of her most cherished values.

Quotes by Russell M. Nelson

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.

Quotes by Robert Grosseteste

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...

Quotes by Robert Grosseteste

Good Quotes

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

Quotes by Richard Steele

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.

Quotes by Pope Francis

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

Quotes by Pope Francis

I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.

Quotes by Peter Hammill

He Quotes

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

Quotes by Ovid

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Faithful quotes page focus on?
It gathers sayings about loyalty and accuracy across different contexts, love and marriage, the art of translation, and even the reliability of instruments like a compass.
What is the famous quote about translation on this page?
It's the well-known observation that a translation which is beautiful is rarely faithful, and one that stays faithful to the original is rarely beautiful, highlighting the tension between accuracy and elegance.
Is there a quote about marriage or devotion?
Yes, one speaker describes a spouse in warmly loyal terms, praising both her character and her steady devotion.
Why is a compass mentioned in a faithfulness quote?
That line uses a rusty nail near a compass as a metaphor for how small disruptions can pull something reliable away from the truth it's meant to point toward.
Where can I find more quotes about loyalty and devotion?
The Good quotes page has related sayings on steadfast character.

The famous comparison between beauty and fidelity in translation anchors this collection alongside quieter reflections on loyalty in nature and marriage. Browse Better and Church for related themes.