Quotes About Commitment

As men we cannot take our eyes off the road for even a second. One bad moment can destroy a lifetime of careful watching. One weak, selfish decision can crash a decade of keeping your eyes on the road. God grant to us Holy Throne-Room clarity at all times in every situation so that what we are really living for doesn't crash before our eyes.

I want nothing to be off-limits to God. He can have free access to all that I am, everywhere I go, all the time.

For life change to happen, we must commit to full cooperation with God's desire to transform us.

At the height of his effectiveness, John Wesley was asked the secret of his impact for Christ around the world and reportedly answered, "When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

Where is the church persevering in the priority of prayer?

Proverbs 18:22 says, "He who finds a wife finds a good thing.

Prayer is the easiest thing to assume in church and the hardest thing to maintain.

Your highest loyalty after the Lord is to your family. Your first priority after God is your wife then your kids.

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

Nothing is more important than your family. Nothing comes before your responsibility to watch out for them and provide a home safe from any assault upon them, body or soul.

They should stick to knitting," Napoleon had once said.

we should never think of separation except for repeated and enormous violations

What kind of relationship do you have if you never carve out time for the other person? One that is superficial and unsatisfying for both parties. That's why prayer, or intentional time with God, is important if you want a relationship, a friendship, with God.

So, when I entered the Jesuits, at age twenty-seven, I did so with only an eleven-year-old's knowledge about the faith.

Good decisions mean a wholehearted yes to both the positives and negatives that come with any choice.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

See, a marriege needs love. And God. And a little money. That's all.

There ain't no time for foolishness now. You in it now. You got to stay in it.

True love is like a metal tested in a fire. Fires of adversity surround us daily. Are we to love only when it is merely convenient? Like gold or silver, which very hot fire must heat to purge them of impurities, love must be thrust into the fire from time to time to make it purer, stronger and more resilient. And in the same way, live shines its brightest right out of the flames.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

Nihil est melius quam vita diligentissima.(Nothing is better than a most diligent life.)

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.'

I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! And if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death...