Quotes About Commitment

What we can control is where we're going. If we've been less than healthy, we can commit ourselves, as a spiritual exercise, to deal with the spiritual issues behind the physical problem.

If we take our faith seriously and make our way through a difficult marriage in pursuit of witnessing God's reconciling love for a sinful world, then a difficult marriage becomes part of our exercise to prepare us for heaven.

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial . . . Christianity does not therefore depreciate marriage; it sanctifies it."5

People who marry well aren't lucky in love. They're intentional in their path.

Getting married is agreeing to grow together, into each other, to virtually commingle our souls so that we share a unique and rare bond. When we stop doing that, we have committed fraud against our partner; we made a commitment we're not willing to live up to. GETTING MARRIED IS AGREEING TO GROW TOGETHER, TO COMMINGLE OUR SOULS SO THAT WE SHARE A UNIQUE AND RARE BOND.

I am dedicated to the preservation of my marriage's unity.

Marriage isn't about rights as much as it is about revelation.

A husband who truly loves his wife will want to see her grow in Christlike purity. A wife who truly loves her husband will want to see him grow in godliness. Out of true love, both will put growth in godliness above affluence, public opinion, or personal ease.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one. Helen Rowland

That old love was dead. But it represented my commitment before the Lord — the One before whom I said, 'Till death do us part.

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as affairs do.

It's not enough to survive, a lifelong love is all about thriving in a ministry-minded marriage that impacts others.

we must not enter marriage to be fulfilled, emotionally satisfied, or romantically charged, but rather to become more like Jesus Christ.

We realize it's not about what we get out of our marriage but about what we become in our marriage.

Marriage requires a radical commitment to love our spouses as they are, while longing for them to become what they are not yet. Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another's glory or toward degrading each other. —Dan Allender and Tremper Longman III

would not consider any spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ."3

We're not married in a carefree garden of Eden; we're married in the midst of many responsibilities that compete for our energy.

Marriage is the greatest test in the world . . . but now I welcome the test instead of dreading it. It is much more than a test of sweetness of temper, as people sometimes think; it is a test of the whole character and affects every action. T. S. Eliot

We must never be naive enough to think of marriage as a safe harbor from the fall . . . The deepest struggles of life will occur in the most primary relationship affected by the fall: marriage."5

If you want to be free to serve Jesus, there's no question—stay single. Marriage takes a lot of time. But if you want to become more like Jesus, I can't imagine any better thing to do than to get married. Being married forces you to face some character issues you'd never have to face otherwise.

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.

women, if you simply follow your feelings, you are more likely to fall in love with a guy who will thrill you for twelve to eighteen months as a boyfriend and then frustrate you for five to six decades as a husband. Guys, on the other hand, are more inclined to experience romantic love with women they are attracted to physically, yet physical appearance is the thing most likely to change in a person's life.

love is not an emotion; it's a policy and a commitment that we choose to keep in the harshest of circumstances. It's something that can be learned and that we can grow in. Biblical love is not based on the worthiness of the person being loved—none of us deserves Christ's sacrifice—but on the worthiness of the One who calls us to love: "We love because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19).

This is the reality of the human heart, the inevitability of two sinful people pledging to live together, with all their faults, for the rest of their lives.