Quotes About Commitment

The very fact that a man or a woman seeks a new partner is a proof that there never was any love at all, for though sex is replaceable, love is not.

The very fact that a man or woman seeks a new partner is a proof that there never was any love at all. For though sex is replaceable, love is not. Sex is for pleasure; love is for a person. Cows can graze on other pastures, but a person admits of no substitution.

Deferred joys purchased by sacrifice are always sweetest and most enduring.

People are turning away from Christianity today not because it is too hard but because it is too soft.

yet to be daily committed to the greatest of all wars—the one waged within.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more.

Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another.

Celibacy is not the absence of a passion; it is rather the intensity of a passion.

The lazy priest always has less time than the zealous priest, because the former is thinking in terms of the interruptions to his leisure, while the latter seeks the opportunity to be another Christ. The priest's time is not his own; it is Our Lord's.

To marry someone with the idea of possessing him or her is to rob that person of the precious endowment of liberty. If that other person is "mine," like a cocktail, then he or she can never make a present of himself or herself.

As Euripides said: "He is not a lover who does not love forever.

To marry someone with the idea of possessing him or her is to rob that person of the precious endowment of liberty. If that other person is "mine," like a cocktail, then he or she can never make a present of himself or herself. What I possess I can no longer receive as a gift. You cannot receive a gift of ten dollars if you already have it in your pocket and you own it.

sex seeks the part; love the totality.

the very permanence of marriage is destructive of those fleeting infatuations, which are born with the moment and die with it; it destroys selfishness, furthermore, because the mutual love of husband and wife takes them out of themselves into the incarnation of their mutual love, their other selves, their children; and finally it narrows selfishness because the rearing of children demands sacrifice, without which, like unwatered flowers, they wilt and die.

The modern solution in marriage is to find a new love; the Christian solution is to recapture an old love. Divorce with remarriage is a sign that one never loved a person in the first place, but only the pleasure which that person gave.

The fewer sacrifices a man is required to make, the more loath he will be to make those few. His

They never loved in the first place, for love never takes back that which it gives, even in unfaithfulness.

Voulez-vous mériter la confiance de ceux qui ne vous connaissent pas? travaillez. On estime toujours ceux qui travaillent.

Do what you love.

From that moment on, Stella's life was no longer her own. Taking care of seven kids was a twenty-four-hour-a-day job with no weekends off or vacation time.

responsibilities but to securing the

Cuando despierte - dijo- , recuérdame que me voy a casar con ella !

I've remained a virgin for you.

Écrire, me dit-elle tristement, c'est dur. Ce doit être ce qu'il y a de plus exigeant au monde... pour que ce soit vrai, tu comprends!