Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.
The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.
As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.
Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break.
Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.
