Quotes About Commitment

No one gets left behind, you know that.

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

Woran du glaubst, dafür sollst du leben und sterben.

A book? All this for a book?

It should be considered illegal for a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ not to be burning with passion for our Lord and burning with passion for the lost.

In every remote corner there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to saving them. Very often, their determination is all that stands between an endangered species and extinction.

Tell me about love when you've been with someone for years, cared for them when they're ill, put up with them when they're miserable or grumpy, taken the sharp side of their tongue and still come back. Tell me about love when you've acted quite appallingly, and the other person has still accepted you.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

A promise is all about faith. a promise is only as strong as your own faith in yourself, in your own god. so when you swear, in light of your strengths and in spite of your weaknesses, to struggle and follow through, you are doing a beautiful thing.

Music is an act of creation. A musician gives life to a song, even if he or she didn't write it. I would say that learning to play someone else's song is different from writing on yourself, a different kind of commitment. Syke would say it's like raising an adopted child" -Star

S)uccessful people, no matter how busy, seem to make time to write letters.

God created the church, we have said, so that it might increasingly reflect the character of God as it's been revealed in his Word. In keeping with the storyline of the entire Bible, then, church discipline is the act of excluding an individual who carelessly brings disrepute onto the gospel and shows no commitment to doing otherwise.

the most basic level of commitment by a Christian to his church is surprisingly substantial.

When the Bible speaks of love, it measures it primarily not by how much you want to receive but by how much you are willing to give of yourself to someone. How much are you willing to lose for the sake of this person? How much of your freedom are you willing to forsake? How much of your precious time, emotion, and resources are you willing to invest for this person?

Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.

The fundamental response to God's radical love for us is for us to radically love him.

The best day to start exercising is today. Tomorrow can turn into weeks, months or years.

consistency is a state of mind that, once achieved, won't allow you to "be" any other way.

While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage.

We make each decision to abandon the practice of holiness because we don't believe that God is present now or because we don't believe he'll show up later.

I keep going on about it, but musicians are a unique sort. The stage is everything to them – there's nothing outside of it. It's as if they're still performing in a school play and their mam's out in the audience and they're busting a gut to upstage every other fucker around them. I've got to keep an eye on this all the time.

Americans don't like a quitter.