Quotes About Commitment

Christians behave like spies, living in one world while our deepest allegiance belongs to another.

Rejoicing in suffering" does not mean Christians should act happy about tragedy and pain when they feel like crying. Rather, the Bible aims the spotlight on the end result, the productive use God can make of suffering in our lives. To achieve that result, however, he first needs our commitment of trust, and the process of giving him that commitment can be described as rejoicing.

Contrary to popular belief, love is actually a reflection of how much we 'honor' another person—for at its core genuine love is a decision, not a feeling.

The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.

We exercise faith by responding to the task that lies before us.

people who have been broken by suffering and sickness ask for only one thing: a heart that loves and commits itself to them, a heart full of hope for them."2

We do not give up on the institution of family because of its imperfections-why give up on the church?

15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

about the key to something many Christ-followers often talk and pray about: genuine revival.

We'll stay true to God only if our love becomes a decision.

Wounded people who have been broken by suffering and sickness ask for only one thing: a heart that loves and commits itself to them, a heart full of hope for them.

He dithered but never dallied.

What am I to do, what can any woman do, when her husband is such a fool as to desire a woman for a moment, rather than the woman he is pledged to for eternity?

Loyaute me lie - Loyalty Binds Me

I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.

Either you have me or not at all. Either you love me or not at all. Either I am all yours or I am nobody's. I will have no half-measures with you.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What'd you choose to do with yours?

I will make my own future, not predict it. I don't need a charm to tell me what I hope will happen. I throw the gold charm which is like a wedding ring up in the air and catch it before it falls. This is my choice. I don't need magic to reveal my desire. The enchantment is already done: I am in love; I am sworn to a man of earth; I am not going to give this man up. All I have to do is consider how we can stay together.

I am marrying the finest man I have ever known." "It will cost you dear," he warns. "It would be worse to lose him.

She's like an anchor that he has forgotten, but still it keeps him steady.

I cannot know what the future will bring us," he says in a rapid undertone. "I cannot know where you will be given in marriage, nor what life might hold for me. But I can't let you go without telling you—without telling you at least once—that I love you.

Before God, I love you and cherish you more than anything in the world. Of course I want to marry you. I love you heart and soul.

I will go to war should there ever be a cause I think worth dying for--and not before.

I knew when I first saw you that you were the woman I would want for all my life.