Quotes about Loyalty
It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.
— RC Sproul
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.
— Paul David Tripp
Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.
— David Jeremiah
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
— Aristotle
He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
— Matthew 12:30
If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.
— Martin Luther
Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.
— JM Coetzee
And the king spoke with them, and among all the young men he found no one equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they entered the king’s service.
— Daniel 1:19
But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.
— Genesis 39:8
Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.
— Genesis 49:14
And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Esther’s welfare and what was happening to her.
— Esther 2:11