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Quotes About Commitment

Nothing must come before the kingdom of God, including the desire for a simple life-style.
~ Richard J. Foster
Lord God, you deserve my best. Forgive me for the times I have offered you only the dregs, whether it be half-heartedly muttered prayers or only the money I know I can do without. Help me to remember that there is no better resting place for my heart and indeed all my possessions than with you. Help me to trust and obey you more each day. In your name I pray. Amen.
~ Richard J. Foster
Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.
~ Richard J. Foster
We sing, 'Take my life and let it be, consecrated, Lord, to Thee.' But we must flesh out that consecration in specific ways, which is why the next line of the hymn says, 'Take my silver and my gold, not a mite would I withhold.' We consecrate ourselves by consecrating our money.
~ Richard J. Foster
By means of intense personal discipline Flannery O'Connor was able to rise above a debilitating disease to become one of the finest fiction writers of the twentieth century. Freedom is the product of discipline and commitment.
~ Richard J. Foster
Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living.
~ Richard J. Foster
Love a man who'll bleed to make a point. (Candy)
~ Richard Kadrey
CANDY AND ALESSA are practicing in the storeroom. One of them is burning through "Miserlou" and the other sounds like she's falling down the stairs with a boxful of cats. But she keeps playing. Good for her.
~ Richard Kadrey
That's how you know someone likes you. Anyone can give you chocolate and flowers, but when they'll disembowel someone for you? That's true love.
~ Richard Kadrey
That's how you know someone really likes you. Anyone can give you chocolate and flowers, but when they'll disembowel someone for you? That's true love.
~ Richard Kadrey
So, this really is a crusade after all. And now I'm part of it. Hallelujah.
~ Richard Kadrey
Não há oferta de excelência a menos que você goste do que está fazendo.
~ Richard Koch
There are disadvantages.You shouldn't join a star venture if you are lazy, a loner, in poor health, don't want to be committed, tired of life or in a relationship that is already shaky - it would not survive the competition! Otherwise, it's a 'no-brainer'.
~ Richard Koch
In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all the unimportant opportunities. "The Apple Marketing Philosophy," 19771
~ Richard Koch
Devotion means putting in extra hours because you believe in something and you want to see it work. You believe in something with all your heart and are very passionate about it.
~ Richard Kuhns
couple of minutes in my car, signing it over
~ Richard Laymon
Once you've caught a glimpse of the cosmos through the back doors of your church, it doesn't seem like such a big deal to suggest to a sweet young couple that they quit sleeping with other people.
~ Richard Lischer
I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.
~ Richard M. Daley
Livingstone explored for the rest of his life, enduring fevers, torrential rains, animal attacks, threatening tribes, and countless other hardships. Once when asked how he could make such sacrifices, Livingstone answered, "I never made a sacrifice. We ought not to talk of sacrifice when we remember the great sacrifice which Christ made when He left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.
~ Richard M. Hannula
The kids, like all kids, loved the dog [Checkers], and I just want to say this, right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we are going to keep it.
~ Richard M. Nixon
we were all driven by something that pushed us further than others dared to go. We were mission oriented and would do what we had to do to achieve it.
~ Richard Marcinko
He said unto them, Verily I say unto you: There is no man that hath left house, or wife or brethren, or parents, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, who shall not receive manifold more in this time, and in the world to come eternal life [16: 18: 29-30].
~ Richard Maurice Bucke
My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
~ Richard Milhous Nixon
We cannot love our customers so much, love we not their customers more.
~ Richard Monson-Haefel