Quotes about Steadfastness

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

Truth is nothing if not unchangeable, and in so far as a man takes his stand upon Truth does he become steadfast in virtue, does he rise superior to his passions and emotions and changeable personality.

The Temple of Righteousness is built and its four walls are the four Principles— Purity, Wisdom, Compassion, Love. Peace is its roof; its floor Steadfastness, its entrance-door is Selfless Duty, its atmosphere is Inspiration, and its music is the Joy of the perfect.

A tree's nature does not change because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Thank goodness God is still faithful even when we're faithless.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

As long as you live, you will be subject to change, whether you will it or not - now glad, now sorrowful; now pleased, now displeased; now devout, now undevout; now vigorous, now slothful; now gloomy, now merry. But a wise man who is well taught in spiritual labor stands unshaken in all such things, and heeds little what he feels, or from what side the wind of instability blows.