Quotes About Commitment

Making a decision never to freely choose to commit even a small sin is an important turning point in the spiritual journey.

What is your state of soul with respect to mortal sin? Are you firmly resolved never to commit it for any reason whatsoever? . . . In this resolution consists the foundation of the spiritual life.

What is necessary is the faith that leads to obedience and to discipleship.

In the early stages, this withdrawal helps center the soul properly on God and not on His consolations and gives an opportunity for deeper and truer decisions of commitment to God to be made. Also called the "dark night of the senses," the soul is purified of gross attachments to the delights of the senses and the things of this world, thus increasing its desire for God.

Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn't like to, in order to protect his family.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

Be as willing to die to sin as Christ was to die for sin, and as willing to live to Him as He was to die for you. Be as willing to be His, to serve Him, as that He should be yours to save you. Take Him on His own terms, give up yourself wholly to Him.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Nothing ever great was achieved without enthusiasm.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

States!... Go put your creed into your deed.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

To live without duties is obscene.

Go put your creed into your deed.

The Indian commitment to the semantics of socialism is at least as deep as ours to the semantics of free enterprise . . . Even the most intransigent Indian capitalist may observe on occasion that he is really a socialist at heart. J. K. GALBRAITH, economist, 1958

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.