Quotes About Commitment

Spiritual growth results from self-denial. At times we must give up something good in order to do what God wants. Each person's special duties determine the discipline and denial that he or she must accept. Without a goal, discipline is nothing but self-punishment. With the goal of pleasing God, our denial seems like nothing compared to the eternal, imperishable reward that will be ours.

My friend, a relationship with God is the key, the key to all of life, including your marriage.

Your attitude of serving the Lord can transform even the most menial of tasks into a magnificent sacrifice of love.

When all is said and done, one of our rewards may be praise, but the greater reward is being faithful to follow our Lor and Savior, Jesus Christ.

The husband leads, loves, and works hard to provide, while the wife follows, loves, helps, and appreciates his efforts.

When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong.

God's recipe for a happy marriage, a recipe made up of four basic ingredients: help, submit, respect, and love?

help us apply God's teaching, I've put these four biblical elements into an easy-to-remember formula using the word W-I-F-E. Warm up his life with your love Improve his life as a helper Follow his leadership with a willing heart Esteem him highly with utmost respect

It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children.

God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife.

A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy.

The act of committing yourself to the Lord daily allows Him to guide you.

I want God to be first in my life, so I'm putting Him first in my life today.

Imagine placing God foremost in your heart each morning and striking out on His path for your day, deliberately living for Him. As you commit yourself to God each day, He will work in your heart!

There is no escape if love is not there.

Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it?

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

You have no idea how strong my love is!

What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives together -- in misery, but happy to not be apart.

Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous. Felipe-Eat, Pray, Love

What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life's expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.