Quotes about Loyalty

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

Trust not your security to one who puts his own interests first.

God does not look for success as the world understands it. He looks for faithfulness. "Who is that faithful servant?" Success is accomplishing faithfully the task allotted to you by the Lord.

Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.

Discipleship can tolerate no conditions which might come between Jesus and our obedience to him.

Discipleship is commitment to Christ. Because Christ exists, he must be followed.

Had Levi stayed at his post, Jesus might have been his present help in trouble, but not the Lord of his whole life. In other words Levi would never have learnt to believe.

It was Bonhoeffer and his friends who proved by their resistance unto death that even in the age of the nation-state there are loyalties which transcend those to state and nation.

Only from this point of view can it be proved that Hitler and his gang were not only the destroyers of Europe but also traitors to their own country; and, further, that men can lose their country if it is represented by an anti-Christian régime.

Who is this Judas? Who is the betrayer? Faced with this question, are we capable of more than asking with the disciples: "Surely not I, Lord?