Keeping the faith is about sticking to your promises, going down into darkness rose-crowned, proud, unreluctant, knowing you've done the right thing, stuck by your friends in times of trouble. These are perhaps old-fashioned values - honour, loyalty, trust, pride, fidelity, reliability, dependability, strength, seeing things through, constancy - but no less worth having for all that. We live in a throw-away society and keeping your word, being there when you said you would, being dependable and reliable, makes you stand out as a person of some value, some worth. This is a good thing.
We fight shy of being 'good' these days in case people mistake us for 'goody-goodies'. But that's another thing entirely. Keeping the faith is something you do. Being a goody-goody is when you try to convert others. Having your own values and keeping them to yourself is fine. Trying to make everyone else do the same as you is a bad thing. That makes you a goody-goody.
Keeping the faith is something you do. Being a goody-goody is when you try to convert others
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