Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.