Quotes About Commitment

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

It was better to imagine a sacrifice being for something.

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry—every man of every nation has done that—'tis the living up to it that's difficult.

But there are two basic kinds of professional, Harkness saw in a moment of self-congratulatory illumination. There's the professionalism that does something well enough to earn a living from it. And there's the professionalism that creates a commitment so intense that the earning of a living happens by the way. Its dynamic isn't wages but the determination to do something as well as it can be done.

You are what you worship. And you worship what you love. —James K. A. Smith

You break his heart," Watts told Amanda, "I'll break your face!

I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.

In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.

Soft skills require a lot of hard work.

Oh that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory.

I have received my all from God. Oh that I could return my all to God

Oh, how sweet it is to be spent and worn out for God!

Oh that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

Saw I was evidently throwing myself into all hardships and distressed in my present undertaking. I thought it would be less difficult to lie down in the grave; but yet I chose to go rather than stay.

I longed to spend and be spent for God.

My soul was this day, at turns, sweetly set on God. I longed to be with Him that I might behold His glory. I felt sweetly disposed to commit all to Him, even my dearest friends, my dearest flock, my absent brother, and all my concerns for time and eternity. Oh, that His kingdom might come in the world; that they might all love and glorify Him, for what He is in Himself; and that the blessed Redeemer might 'see the travail of his soul, and be satisfied! Oh, come, Lord Jesus, come quickly! Amen.

Freedom was wonderful beyond relief. But with it came that bitch, Duty.

You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

Consider the possibility that a creature of infinite love has made a promise to us. Consider the possibility that we are the ones committed to, the objects of an infinite commitment, and that the commitment is to redeem us and bring us home.

vocations almost always involve tasks that transcend a lifetime. They almost always involve throwing yourself into a historical process. They involve compensating for the brevity of life by finding membership in a historic commitment.

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

outside of my family, the biggest thing in my life. I'd had fights over him, I'd got beaten up because of him.

Performers try harder.