Quotes About Commitment

Marriages don't stay in neat, tidy shapes you know; they sprawl about, very messily sometimes. The important thing is not to let them get out of control.

and his idea of being faithful was not being in bed with one woman while another was actually under the same roof;

That he had not behaved as if he adored her, that she would not indeed have left him if he had, that he had most steadfastly refused indeed to become her husband, that he had misused her dreadfully, that he had been ill-tempered and critical of her, that he had been a bad provider, that his own pride had refused to allow her to add so much as one franc of her own money to the family budget – all these things were as nothing to Adele.

For I loved all things with intense devotion;

Practice is everythingThis is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it." – LUKE 9:23-24

which is maintaining agreement with your prayer. It is impossible to hold on to something that's not first possessed in your heart.

The marriage covenant should be strong enough to endure pressure from within and from without

and each spouse in the relationship should believe that the other is worth saving and the marriage is worth fighting for.

I smiled ruefully to myself, knowing I had already experienced a far greater and deeper union with this man than that which propriety was so busy guarding against. I had seen and accepted our fate here, tonight, on the crest of this ancient hill, and all other ceremonies would be just that: rituals to please the people and make public the commitment that had been made in the privacy of my own heart.

The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom.

with the Baker Act commitment process, I decided to contact Dr. Morton Birnbaum. Most historians credit him with being the father of the civil rights movement for the mentally

A Christian who prays only when they feel like it may survive but they will never thrive. Their vast, innate potential will be stunted because grace needs a little space to take root between the cracks of a person's life.

Norman Wirzba writes, "The extent and depth of our Sabbath commitment is the measure of how far we have progressed in our discipleship and friendship with God.

Zinzendorf. . .asked God to remind him of Christ's suffering whenever he might be inclined to wander away from his first love.

and one of their lessons was that the essence of the work was the doing of it.

Pete Pfitzinger

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

When an emotional experience has shifted, we best support ourselves by accepting its loss as shamelessly as possible and by making a commitment to love and accept ourselves no matter what we feel – no matter what storms come with our emotional weather.

But Washington's long and faithful service stands in marked distinction from Jefferson's mere election. Washington actually served with great fidelity. We do not want to read anything into this other than what the facts tell us, and the facts are that George Washington's service as a vestryman is commensurate with the highest commitment to the Christianity proposed by the Anglican Church.

Deep, short and sincere holy life is by far better than a supposedly long holy life punctuated by capitulations to temptations and distractions.

If I can do it, I'll do it better than it was ever done before, and if I can't do that I'll quit to save you the embarrassment of firing me.

2 Timothy 47.

don't, usually. But one of the other girls is sick, and I said I'd fill in." "Oh." "I'll be back by suppertime.