Quotes About Commitment

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.

Lord, if any have to die this day, let it be me, for I am ready.

Being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly.

We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

Be not hot in prayer and cold in praise.

There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.

Once you sink that first stake, they'll never make you pull it up.

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.

Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

We also serve who only punctuate.

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

The most important thing in marriage is not happiness, but stability.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.