Quotes About Commitment

If Christ is to give Himself wholly to me, He must know that He has me wholly for Himself;

Do believe that when He takes charge of you in Christ, it is possible for God to make you a man of absolute surrender. And God is able to maintain that. He is able to let you rise from bed every morning of the week with that blessed thought directly or indirectly: "I am in God's charge. My God is working out my life for me.

The extent of our love to the Lord is shown by the way we obey His commands. Love does all that it can to make the loved one happy.

Jesus gave up His life to God, and by this He taught us that the only thing that life is worth living for is to give it back to God, even unto death.

it was as if everything conspired to keep him from prayer.

He chiefly used when speaking of the relations of the disciples to Himself was: Follow me. When about

It is always easier to be engaged with the Christianity of the past or the future than to be faithful in the Christianity of today.

Nothing short of conformity to Christ—a life wholly dedicated to God—should satisfy you.

Resolve: "I will engage in a religious life only for the love of God; and I will endeavor to act only for Him; whatever becomes of me I will always continue to act purely for the love of God.

we surrender ourselves, and accept in faith the whole

There is but one way of being delivered from this life of self. We must follow Christ, set our hearts upon Him, listen to His teachings, give ourselves up every day, that He may be all to us, and by the power of Christ the denial of self will be a blessed, unceasing reality.

and how the wholehearted surrender to abide in Him

As we give ourselves entirely to God for His work, we will feel that nothing less than these great promises is what we need. Nothing less is what we may confidently expect.

As faith strengthens us for obedience, it is in turn strengthened by it. Faith is made perfect by works.

When God has begun the work of absolute surrender in you, and when God has accepted your surrender, then God holds Himself bound to care for it and to keep it. Will you believe that?

Let's yield ourselves to take up the appointment the Savior gives us. Let's concentrate on His relationship to us as Master and no longer start each new day with thoughts of comfort, or joy, or blessing. Let the first thought be: I belong to the Master.

Do not serve God half-heartedly. Pray that the Holy Spirit will lead you to the wonder of a life wholly surrendered to God's service.

The value of the promise depends on the promiser; faith in the promise depends on my knowledge of the promiser.

We prove the value we attach to things by the time we devote to them. The Kingdom should be first every day, and all the day.

I am at the head of a station, with a large outlying district to care for. I see the importance of much prayer, and yet my life hardly leaves room for it. Are we to submit? Or tell us how we can attain to what we desire.

The condition for obtaining God's full blessing is absolute surrender to Him.

And we – you, my reader, and I – may have the privilege of offering ourselves to God to labor in prayer and bring down these blessings to this earth.

It is only the fully surrendered heart that can fully trust God for all that He has promised.

God has priority over your time, no matter what else must be neglected. Only then will you be able to submit yourself fully to the will of God. If, from day to day, you persevere with dedication, time will no longer be a question.