Quotes About Commitment

When I hear the word division, I think "two visions." Whenever a Christ follower marries someone who doesn't have a commitment to Christ, the believer is trying to build an already-divided house. Certainly this isn't the only way divergent visions can compromise a marriage union, but it's one of the most important.

God's highest agenda is not our immediate happiness. I believe that God is much more committed to our eternal joy, our spiritual growth, and the condition of our hearts.

Deciding you should get divorced because you've run out of love is like deciding you should sell your car because it has run out of gas. No reasonable person would ever do that. You simply put more gas in your car and go on. If your marriage "love low" light comes on, pull over and start putting love back into your marriage. Once you've filled it back up, then you can go on. SOWING

1. Seek God. 2. Fight fair. 3. Have fun. 4. Stay pure. 5. Never give up.

Full-time lover of your world; part-time lover of God

serving isn't something we do. A servant is who we're called to be.

Accountability is not easy, and it doesn't come naturally. But in the long run it's incredibly necessary, and when you do it right, it's nothing but good.

accountability partner:

No form of submission to God could be simpler or clearer than just showing up at church on Sunday.

It's true that if you're a leader but no-one is following you then you're actually not leading; you're just out for a walk. But it's also true that you're not really a leader unless you go for a walk because you know it's right and you're willing to have no-one come with you. Henry

It's never about who's the fastest, strongest, toughest—it's always about who, when everyone else would pause, will commit.

he's like a gun; once you point him and pull the trigger, it's too late to change your mind.

All the important promises are about leaving or not leaving.

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

The only ammunition against reckless discouragement is relentless devotion.

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

And so I think I got married because I thought that a ring would lock that love in forever, because it's very scary when it is just your feelings holding you together

I promise-ted I'd care up for him downwise 'til the tailend of time.

Mission (if it is biblically informed and validated) means our committed participation as God's people, at God's invitation and command, in God's own mission within the history of God's world for the redemption of God's creation."4

Faith is a practical expression of the confidence we have in God and His Word, while trust is a practical expression of our commitment to God and His Word.

I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.

El matrimonio es una institución absurda. Una se ve vendida a los quince años y presta un juramento que no entiende y del que luego se arrepiente a lo largo de treinta años o más, pero que ya no se puede romper. Sissi Emperatriz de Austria