Quotes About Commitment

I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?" "You'll save me from marauding minotaurs?

Every call of Christ leads into death.

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

I'm working myself to death.

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

and said that he still had his evening's reading. He did not do justice to a writer unless he read him on consecutive days and for no less than three hours at a sitting. Otherwise, despite his notetaking and underlining, he lost touch with a book's inner life and might as well not have begun. Sometimes, when he unavoidably had to miss a day, he would go back and begin all over again, rather than be nagged by his sense that he was wronging a serious author.

Nothing illegal is achieved without patience.' Benjamin Franklin.

no, a mí no se me habría pasado por la cabeza abandonar la familia y la fábrica para dedicar todo mi tiempo a escribir, como él hizo.

Porque é em momentos assim que amamos as pessoas, quando as vemos decididas a enfrentar o pior. Não corajosas. Não heróicas. Simplesmente decididas.

Drenka Balich's perfectionism on the job was not her only immoderate inclination.

Every wife should have a husband like Norman, revere a husband like Norman instead of battering on his decency with her low-minded delights.

You want monogamy outside marriage and adultery inside marriage.

Whatever we set out to make- a meal, a table, a bed- we should make as well as we can. To do otherwise is spiritless.

We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88)

Often a work of God comes with two edges, great joy and great pain, and in that matter-of-fact response Mary embraced both. She was the first person to accept Jesus on His own terms, regardless of the personal cost.