Quotes About Commitment

The level of our responsibility in things of God determines our level of prosperity

If you have to cut corners to get it, without allowing yourself go through the process, you will not be able to keep it.

You must be more committed to the truth of God's word and what is right than the flaws in our society.

The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.

Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.

We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.

Why is this so hard?" I whispered.His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. "Everything worth fighting for is hard.

A trusting heart will follow, only those who truly follow their heart.

I play with the fire of my own truth, " she told me, "I will burn for the things I love.

The real point was that it was exactly like the film Love Affair," said Sondheim, whose frames of reference were often cinematic. "They decided they would not do anything but see in six months whether they still wanted each other. So they let six months go by and then decided that they did want to see each other, so she left her husband—even though she was a Catholic—and he left my mother.

Those who can't be loyal never believe when others are

This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit.

As long as the patient lives, Marshal, we've done what we need to do.

MacKaye never varied his equipment: a Gibson SG guitar and a Marshall amplifier. "Even though I know that there's a lot of options, I'm not interested in options," he says. "I'm interested in how far I can take this simple equation, which is an amp, a cord, and a guitar, and how much I can do with it.

You will do what looks good to you on paper / We will do what we must.

they also went out of their way to play all-ages shows, often hurting their draw by playing two sets a night.

Why are we in a band again?' We just were driven to do it for some reason, I don't know why. Just because we had nothing better to do.

they weren't kids anymore—they were pushing thirty; even more important, Lunsford had become a proud papa in 1990. "I had to say, 'What are my primary commitments?' " he says. "Being in a seriously touring rock & roll band is difficult to do as a parent.

I saw a lot of friends and acquaintances turn their bands which were previously something that they did out of passion into a shot at a small business," Steve Albini told the venerable zine Punk Planet. "In the course of doing it, they ended up hating their bands in a way that I used to hate my job, because it became something they had to do: it was an obligation.

The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.

Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.

I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer.

You never would get through to the end of being a father, no matter where you stored your mind or how many steps in the series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling you to do, perform, or say anything at all.

He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman's lack of faith.