Quotes About Commitment

I am come to set a man at variance with his father,"4 Jesus had said. "If any man come to me and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my follower.

My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

Nothing is won without sacrifice.

You know what you are to me? ... You are the most important thing in my life. You are my friend... my lover... my family... the one I trust, the one I fight with, the one I laugh with, the one I trust to enter my body the one I can fall back against with my eyes closed. You are simply part of me. That's what I mean, Anthony, when I say I love you.

Falling in love isn't the problem" she murmured. "its the staying in love part that i don't have much faith in.

If you don't pray often, you won't gain a love for praying. Prayer is work, and therefore it is not very appealing to our natural sensibilities. But the simple rule for prayer is this: Begin praying and your taste for prayer will increase. The more you pray, the more you will acquire the desire for prayer, the energy for prayer, and the sense of purpose in prayer.

She [the wife of godly character] brings him [her husband] good, not harm, all the days of her life (Proverbs 31:12). Wait a minute! My mind raced. All the days of her life? What was that supposed to mean? I had yet to meet any woman who had been married all the days of her life. Did this verse mean that she tried to do her husband good…even before she met him?

It's not a guideline—it's a deadline.

We are concentrates, charged with the task in life of avoiding dilution.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

God does not cancel his calling. If

In the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Only the obedient believe, and those who believe are obedient" (The Cost of Discipleship, p. 69).

Ministerial leadership is, first and finally, discipleship.

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

Harrison Ford proposed to Calista Flockhart and then slipped the ring around her waist.

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls to Christ. When I was asleep, I dreamed of these things, and when I waked, the first thing I thought of was this great work.

To be as immovable as a pillar in the house of our God, is an end for which one would gladly endure all the shakings that may be necessary to bring us there! HANNAH WHITALL SMITH

Be ready in the morning, and come up . . . present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. And no man shall come up with thee (Exod. 34:2–3).

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

She knew she was obsessed, but it was turning out that she was the kind of person who needed to be obsessed with something, and she could have done a lot worse.

He would lose whatever he had to lose, if that's what it took to win.