Quotes About Commitment

Prayer is a solemn work as any thou canst go about in thy whole lifetime.

No, the Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.

If he cannot shed tears, much less will he bleed for truth.

That it is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to get an established judgment of the truth, but also to maintain a steadfast profession of the truth.

The believer is to persevere in his Christian course to the end of his life: his work and his life must go off the stage together.

O, this persevering is a hard word! this taking up the cross daily, this praying always, this watching night and day, and never laying aside our clothes and armour, I mean indulging ourselves, to remit and unbend in our holy waiting on God, and walking with God. This sends many sorrowful away from Christ, yet this is a saint's duty, to make religion his every-day work, without any vacation from one end of the year to the other.

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of waves.

Bernard compares the study of the Word and the mere reading of it to the difference between a close friendship and a casual acquaintance. If you want genuine knowledge, he says, you will have to do more than greet the Word politely on Sundays or nod reverently when you chance to meet it on the street. You must walk with it and talk with it every day of the week. You must invite it into your private chambers, and forego other pleasures and worldly duties to spend time in its company.

Therefore labour to be sound rather than brave Christians.

If we do only what is required of us we are slaves, the moment we do more we are free. – CICERO

There are few poets today who can equal, in their esthetic exploitation of language, in their depth of commitment to their medium, in their range of conceptual understanding, in the purity of their closed forms, the work of Nabokov, Borges, Beckett, Barth, Broch, Gaddis, or Calvino, or any of half-a-dozen extraordinarily gifted South Americans.

I could not shake my point of view, infected as it was, and I took up their study with a manly passion.

She crowds each moment with endeavor.

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

Serious writing must nowadays be written for the sake of the art. The condition I describe is not extraordinary. Certain scientists, philosophers, historians, and many mathematicians do the same, advancing their causes as they can. One must be satisfied with that.

He maintained later that he stopped seeing Fenton because he lost his insurance when he dropped out of graduate school, implying that if she'd kept seeing him, he wouldn't have committed the Century 16 murders.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.

It was only one of a dozen or twenty vocations which he had taken up at various times, only to drop them again as soon as he made the discovery that they one and all entailed months and even years of hard work if he was ever to fulfil his ambitious desire of doing and being something great in the world.

God, save me and I will serve You as long as I live!