Quotes About Commitment

Many wear the Robe, but few keep the Way.

With you-to the end of the world!

None of us should marry, unless we love a man so much we would go through hell for him, which we shall probably have to do.

With the feeling of elation there came to Harriet a feeling of responsibility. She had avowed herself. She had signed herself away. It was public now. She was different. With all the glory, she wished she could have kept herself a secret.

You don't give up writing until writing gives you up. –

Please, body, hold fast until I can complete my final task.- Sango

I said, 'Yes theres a lot to look a head to. Like croaking iron at Widders Dump. We do the croaking and they get the iron.' He said, 'Riddley theres other things to do as wel.' I said, 'Yes and they all smel of cow shit dont they?

Love me or I will kick you very hard.

I am only the waves and particles of such as I was but I have a covenant with the Lord, the terms of it are simple: everything is required of me, for ever.

The typical Japanese swing of mood is from intense dedication to intense boredom

Work and study, theory and practice: the two must go hand in hand. You must not stop studying because you work, and you must not stop working because you study.

Her failure didn't matter, because at least she'd been true to her impossible dream until the very end.

This is trouble with you. You think you want, you don't think you want–always back and forth. Me, when I want, it is with whole heart. I look at wanted thing with eyes straight on. But you! Neither here nor there. Your looking always crooked, from side of eye. It has no power to hold. So wanted thing, it slip away from you.

This is the chapter in which he praises his young monks for their commitment to a path of awakening and explicates the granular nature of time: the 6,400,099,980 moments40 that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.

a]nd the Pig Man came in from Waitomo and swore that if Louisa didn't marry him he'd damn well vote Labour at the next election. And I don't care if the country does go to rack and ruin, he said.

book, banging in the full stops until it looked as if he would break his pen.

She stepped towards the door beneath the sign, then stopped and looked back at him. 'You'll be right here, right?' 'I promise.' 'And you'll stay with me tonight, won't you?' 'Of course. I won't leave you.' I've got to snuff her as soon as possible and get this over with, Kawashima thought as he watched her enter the building.

The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

The Highest, after all, is not to comprehend the Highest, but to do it.

In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is 'to a certain degree'.

In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.

Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then enthusiastically to keep the ship afloat by pumping and not to seek the harbor--that is the metaphor for having faith. (Concluding Unscientific Postscript)