Quotes About Commitment

I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.

A name is a promissory note that it cannot itself keep.

The religious sense of life kicks in when I am rigorously loyal, "religiously" faithful (religio on still another etymology, meaning "scrupulous" or "in a disciplined way") to the service of something other than myself, more important than myself, to which I swear an oath, which has me more than I have it.

For the expendable marriage, you give the expendable gift.

Keep your head down, fella. Do your job. Sell the product, write the contracts, negotiate the loans, attend the closings, bank your share and fatten the Keogh accordingly.

She trudged along, dutiful as a naughty child.

People are very good at things they are very interested in.

There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.

Marriage is the sanctuary of the heart. You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.

God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into marriage and then he uses it to transform us.

We are, all of us, utterly committed and deeply devoted to our style, our way, our approach to life. We have absolutely no intention of giving it up. Not even for love. So God creates an environment where we have to. It's called marriage.

The warrior learns to master the art of holding fast to dreams while accepting the rigors of becoming the kind of man who can be entrusted with those dreams;

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

must live maturely, knowing that whatever else is happening, we must preserve the relationship if we would find our way.

Friend, you must be intentional about holding on to the truth.

Sex can be such a stark barometer for a marriage.

Your loyalty is not to a church or a movement, but to Jesus Christ.

I simply align myself with you again today.

The eyes of the LORD search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him" (2 Chronicles 16:9 NLT).

I give the Self Life to you, God. I abandon it, release it, deny it, turn it over to you. I'd much rather have you.

Jesus, I surrender the Self Life to you.

A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

All of us in the Congress are made fully aware of the importance of party unity (what sins have been committed in that name!)