Quotes About Commitment

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

Christ is to be cherished, not just chosen.

What does it mean to be a Christian? Charles Hodge, one of the great nineteenth-century Reformed theologians, sees the answer in this text: "It is being so constrained by a sense of the love of our divine Lord to us, that we consecrate our lives to him."6

You're not all that God has called you to be, as a follower of Jesus, if you're missions-minded but not engaged in God's mission here and now.

So we can go deeper than Mather's point. Behind God's commitment to reign as king is the deeper foundational commitment that his glory will one day fill the earth (Num. 14:21; Ps. 57:5; 72:19; Isa. 11:9; Hab. 2:14).

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

scientific discovery requires the boldness of provisional commitment to a point of view, while remaining aware that this may require subsequent modification in the light of further experience.

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

It is a bad idea to fixate on the wedding day while neglecting the rest of a marriage in which an initial virgin may stray into illicit beds. A onetime sexual tiger who becomes monogamous ( through sheer force of will or love) in marriage may deserve quite a bit more applause than the wedding-day virgin who later strays.

Communication works for those who work at it.

The Jihadist mindset and unfailing commitment is to replace every single national government in the world with a Muslim government, with Sharia law replacing all former national laws. "Muslim nations are very special because they have a command from Allah to rule the entire world and to be over every nation in the world." (Mawlana Abul Ala Mawdudi, quoted by Dr. Gabriel, Islam and Terrorism).

TO CONQUER THE WORLD – Given Jihadists' ultimate, unshakeable commitment to conquer the world, and knowing that bringing America to its knees will mean the rest of the nations of the world will fall like ripe plums into Muslim hands, no student of history, or of Islam, seriously thinks there will be any hesitancy against destroying America, even if it means the death of Muslims living in America.

Jihadists are thoroughly committed, with a burning desire, to make Allah the god and Sharia Law the law, of every nation on the globe. That

Jihadists are thoroughly committed, with a burning desire, to make Allah the god and Sharia Law the law, of every nation on the globe.

There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work.

Wedlock is a padlock.

But do you know, baby, that I have never been Really Married? I mean in White, coming down a Winding Staircase. . . . And I will! I will fall in love again soon—I can feel it—and when I do, I will have my Fabulous Wedding, in a pearlwhite gown

Reading only a bit of a great book (e.g., Plato's Republic) is like getting engaged but never marrying. The initial experience is pleasurable but can become frustrating if prolonged.

She's more worried about losing a sub than her own life," Galloway said. "I am going to cover that girl in medals. So help me God.

I think we've got to go after them root and branch...if we're ever gonna do it, this is the time to do it.

we want to get our dreams, we need to sacrifice everything that we have in order to reach it.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.