Quotes About Commitment

I'm no good at this kind of stuff, but you are suddenly the most important thing in my life

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help—and God's.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

When you have a dream and are committed to achieving it, your life takes on new meaning. By unfolding a dream, you discover what makes you happy and brings you joy.

Good equippers do like Jesus did it: recruit twelve, graduate eleven, and focus on three.

Often, it'a not one great, dramatic thing that God asks us to do but hundreds of little everyday things. If we want to be used by Him, if we're ready to be used and aren't all tangled up with your own plans and projects, then He'll show us the work He has for us.

God also puts His people in the middle of things for the same reason that He put the tree of temptation in the middle of the garden--so that our choice to follow Him would be a conscious, daily one. Every time we publicly choose to live for Christ, He is glorified.

A servant does what his massa says and goes where his massa sends him and doesn't quit until the job is done.

But the truth is, I can't sip from an hour-long church service on Sunday morning or dash off a hasty prayer or gulp down a daily Bible verse and expect them to sustain me any more than I can expect a glass of water to last for a week.

Love isn't always a feeling. Sometimes it's a decision.

Time and a hundred daily distractions can slowly turn us away from God before we even realize it's happening. But I urge you to keep reading your Bible. Jesus said if you seek Him you will find Him, if you search for Him with all your heart. He's with us everywhere we go, Anna. He's not just in a church building.

But in a compromise, both people need to sacrifice something for the sake of the other person, and hopefully they'll both be happy with the outcome in the end. You're giving up being a pastor, but I'm not sure what exactly Caroline will be giving up.

That's what I like best about it. Your story gives me a lot to think about. Who we fall in love with and choose to spend our life with is such a huge part of everyone's story, isn't it? Our choice affects the rest of our lives.' 'And our children's lives, too.' "Yes. And sometimes our faith gets entangled in our love stories

Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.

I think people who try to run their marriages according to other people's expectations are insane. It is quite hard enough to keep a marriage together till death do you part- which I think should be the aim, even if it can't always succeed- without trying to do it to please other people. A good marriage is whatever suits the participants, and our marriage suited us fine.

Desire inspires us to be our very best.

Even though cultural changes cannot be measured on a day-to-day basis, changes that accrue over decades must be pursued daily.

I need your trust in this, Alec. Can you give it?" Alec looked sidelong at the fire for a long moment, then locked eyes with him again, and replied in halting Aurenfaie, "Rei phoril tos tokun meh brithir, vri sh'ruit'ya." Though you thrust your dagger at my eyes, I will not flinch. A solemn oath, and one Seregil had pledged him not so long ago.

Whatever role you play, play it to the hilt.

I want to come with you, but first you've got to give me a few straight answers." "It's against my nature, but I'll try.

Anything we do, talí, we do with honor.

Say me aye," he whispered against her mouth. "Say me aye." How could she say anything else?