Quotes About Commitment

A twenty-year-old man so in love with his mother he gave up five years of Sabbaths just to see her sit down for a change

Except for Adam I don't know anything about love. Adam had no faults, was innocent, pure, easy to love. Had he lived, grown up to have flaws, human failings like deception, foolishness and ignorance, would he be so easy to adore or be even worthy of adoration? What kind of love is it that requires an angel and only an angel for its commitment?

I want to do good work. I want to be involved in other people's doing good work.

Writing of, about, and within a world committed to racial dominances without employing the linguistic strategies that supported it seemed to me the most urgent, fruitful, challenging work a writer could take on.

Our girlhood was spent like a found nickel on you. When you slept, we were quiet; when you were hungry, we cooked; when you wanted to play, we entertained you; and when you got grown enough to know the difference between a woman and a two-toned Ford, everything in this house stopped for you.

I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind. And I made up my mind to follow you too.

Personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice, is more than a barren life, it's a trivial one.

With you my body is pleasure is safe is belonging. I can never not have you have me.

Love is or ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Struggling through the work is extremely important—more important to me than publishing it.

Come Prepared or Not at All

Take no heed of good looks , but rather of callused hand. Old Maori saying: Choose a husband for his work, not his appearance.

When you fully commit to a goal, the focus of positive energy onto a desired result is like programming a missile to lock on to a moving target; the missile automatically pursues the target no matter how elusive it becomes. The act of commitment also attracts exciting, new opportunities to your doorstep, leading to dramatic changes in your life.

Perhaps you've noticed that successful people are not always the best or the brightest, the quickest or strongest. Yet they're always the ones who do whatever it takes to succeed. A goal without commitment results in a nonentity, and usually falls by the wayside from a lack of interest by its beholder.

Je me lèverai demain. extrait de la nouvelle Temps de Blues

Pish-posh, just doing my lot for the future of the world, you know. I'll sign off by saying, you know where to find me...

Oftentimes, what is required on our part is taking a step, making the move, doing the thing that God has asked us to do without the accompanying emotions to go along with it. However, as you continue to walk by faith in the direction God has called you, your emotions are soon to follow.

Church is not for spectators.

Full faith is an all-out, no-holds-barred approach to a life punctuated by actions of belief.

A kingdom marriage is defined as "a covenantal union between a man and a woman who commit themselves to function in unison under divine authority in order to replicate God's image and expand His rule in the world through both their individual and joint callings.

When you deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Him, you die while you simultaneously truly live. That is when you experience the reality that "whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matthew 16:25).

Is your heavenly Father getting your best, or is He being forced to settle for leftovers? Leftover time. Leftover service. Leftover money.

Faith isn't simply tied to belief. It is tied to an action. Faith is tied to your feet. The power of faith comes when you are willing to give the very thing that you need to someone else so God can give "it" back to you.

Each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband