Quotes About Commitment

"Never, never!" whispered she. "What we did had a consecration of its own."

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

No matter how much the inhabitants might try to hide it, there was a savagery about this island, a bloodlust and pride that bound every mother, father, and child in a clannish commitment to the hunt.

No. Never. I have to try my best or I'll become worse and worse. Even if I can't make up with them. Even if they all ignore me. I still have to try my best.

I want us to be together. From now on, living with you, together. I hate not being with you… Because I love you.

But in love I gave all: my capabilities, my efforts, my feelings, my deepest emotions. Like a saint, I gave everything I had without ever counting the cost.

I wanted a perfect man like the one in my imagination and a perfect love and I wasn't going to abandon either of these goals, however long it meant I had to be alone. 'All or nothing' was my abiding principle and I'd never accept half measures.

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

God does not begin by asking our ability, but more of our availability. When we prove our dependability, He will in crease our capability.

True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.

He knows that having put his hand to the plow he must not look back, because when we are looking back, we are also holding back.

We are often actually less generous with our time than with our money.

I have a tendency to over-focus on the task in hand, with an exclusivity that is borderline autistic.

He held the post until the end of the war, an end that Leif Tronstad did not see for himself.

If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.

and thereby sabotage their best selves. Aspiring entrepreneurs like Ashley have said to me, "I can't be tied down to a routine or a flow chart.

Again, keep everything.

The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work; even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.

Just because you find more work and problems on your path than you anticipated doesn't mean that you made a wrong choice or a mistake!

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

when you are clearly in touch with the person you truly are—the task of selecting the right marriage partner becomes significantly easier.

We have raised the bar so high on how church is done that few believe they could ever do it themselves. The dark side of this endeavor is that we have lowered the bar of what is means to be a Christian, such that simply showing up to the weekly one-hour event with some regularity and a checkbook is all it takes.

Every church throughout history whose members were willing to surrender their lives for the sake of Christ witnessed dramatic and spontaneous growth.