Quotes About Commitment

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

There are times that you must do everything you can to do everything you must.

It is in the nature of love to bind itself";2 vows are love's native language. Love that is mute in the language of promises, though it may be called love, is not love but something else.

The goods of fidelity, for example, are plain and concrete to the man who has not strayed, but they are faint, like mathematical abstractions, to the one who is addicted to other men's wives.

Some made it an excuse for not attending the church service on a Sunday morning, that they could not awake early enough to get their families ready. He provided for this also. Taking a bell in his hand, he set out every Sunday for some months at five in the morning, and went round the most distant parts of the parish inviting all the inhabitants to the house of God.

There is a common worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough. This cheap Christianity . . . offends nobody, requires no sacrifice, costs nothing, and is worth nothing!

I never got into politics for it to be a career.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.

the evangelical Christian is not true to his profession if he leaves his Christianity behind him on Monday morning.

You'll stay with me?' Until the very end,' said James.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

The Christian faith has no category for believers who are not members of a local congregation.

until one is committed there is hesitancy

The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I care for you. I love you. Marry me. Goodbye.

We walk in dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for the One. We die for the One. -- the Ranger oath

An architect never repudiates anything she's loved.

El joven con calibre cíe liderazgo trabajará mientras otros desperdician el tiempo, estudiará mientras los otros dormitan, orará mientras los otros sueñan despiertos. Los hábitos perezosos deben vencerse, ya sea en el modo de pensar, de obrar, o de vestir.

God wants to show such people how strong He really is (2 Chronicles 16:9). But not all who aspire to leadership are willing to pay such a high personal price.

The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer. And

When I go to prayer," confessed an eminent Christian, "I find my heart so loath to go to God, and when it is with Him, so loath to stay." Then he pointed to the need for self-discipline. "When you feel most indisposed to pray, yield not to it," he counseled, "but strive and endeavor to pray, even when you think you cannot.