Quotes About Commitment

During the first 14 of the 40 years Michael and I have been married, we experienced great strife and misery because we tried to do things in the flesh and not in the spirit.

We just have to show up and pray. Some

Salva nuestro matrimonio".

This was their moment to stand for something, and they chose to stand for reelection. Let us remember.

The Christian right would like the world to believe it was the political arm of Jesus Christ, come to life to save a sinful America. In practice it operates more like a Christian-related super PAC for a white America. The professional politicization of Christianity as a right-wing force was always more about the acquisition of power than a commitment to Christianity.

Yes, boss," Rosie said.

work on it." "What do you think of it?

if they were Bible salesmen.

The trade-off is a surety of purpose that eludes so many people living in today's world of constantly shifting values and expectations. "We feel like we are the only people on earth walking around with a sense of purpose. We feel we know who we are and where we are going.

These are the days that require discipline, when exercise is pure duty and the good feeling only comes later, consisting solely of self-congratulations for having done the job at all.

I like lines, I earn mine.

Working out must have cost him everything he had, yet he never failed to appear. There was a doggedness about him that I admired. I watched him with interest, ashamed of my own interior complaints.

It wasn't about finding the right answer; it was about patience and diligence. I surrendered to the process, ascribing the same importance to this work as to anything else I did.

Elmore Leonard

Love, it seemed, was all about nonnegotiables.

Standing up in front of all your close family and friends and putting a ring on each other's finger is a statement of your intention to be this person's love and home.

Underneath all the distress, partners are asking each other: Can I count on you, depend on you? Are you there for me? Will you respond to me when I need, when I call? Do I matter to you? Am I valued and accepted by you? Do you need me, rely on me?

The foundation of contented, sustained relationships is the faith that your partner is there for you.

We said we'd walk together baby come what may That come the twilight should we lose our way If as we're walkin' a hand should slip free I'll wait for you And should I fall behind Wait for me —Bruce Springsteen

Monogamy is not only possible, it is our natural state.

Love isn't just what two people have together, it's what two people make together, so of course, it's never the same.")

More important to what happened in our family, though, was the way my father felt about his work. He loved it. He believed in it with a pure fervor bordering on the religious.

She shrugs finally. At any rate, no, I have no wish to change my life. And he realizes, suddenly, what he has been asking her. Realizes that the version of life he has offered Gaby - their life together - is a gift he has given her and has no right to take away. He reaches over and touches her hand. Of course you don't.

Maybe the passing of time had made a monogamous man of Graham.