Faithfulness (n.) cannot rest on impulses from without, which help only a little while; it must be by one's own strength, and not even that avails unless religiousness day by day sucks eternity into the temporal resolution.
Faithfulness (n.) is tested by the dead: with the living one can say “it was he who changed, so I changed”; with the dead, if there is a change, it must be I who changed.
Faithfulness (n.) over little is open to the poor: gold belongs to the rich, but the poor too can be true as gold.
Faithfulness (n.) carries a double worry between two people, for oneself and lest the other fail; with Christ only one worry is left, for he remains faithful.
Faithfulness (n.) can outlast its object: the wanderer who finds his beloved spring run dry refuses to retract a word of his praise, so there may be some unchangeableness in a human breast.