Quotes About Commitment

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

Plod diligently. Plodding generally goes in the same direction, while pottering doesn't.

Relationships are supposed to mature. This maturing means growth and improvement, not the constant buzz of the initial rush.

A husband can no more blame his wife for the state of their marriage than a thief can blame his hands. As Christ assumed responsibility for things He didn't do, so husbands should be willing to do the same for their wives.

Covenant vows, covenant oaths don't move. They are to be the foundation. Your feelings and sentiments do move. What happens if you make them the foundation? When they go up and down, the whole house goes up and down—like living in a volatile earthquake zone.

Of course, marriage in one sense changes who you are in certain ways, but it also simply amplifies what you are. Many people think that when they got married, they turned into selfish people. What actually happened is they plugged the guitar into the amp and turned it up to eleven, and the selfish tune they had been playing the whole time suddenly became audible.

Jesus literally sang as He was preparing to go to the cross. So, the sacrifices that you will make for your children should be something you can sing over. If there is not a song in it, it is not a biblical sacrifice.

One of the things that modern Christians have a hard time doing right is loyalty.

The issue is not the rate at which things get dirty. Marriages will always include bumps, fusses, misunderstandings, and problems. However, when these problems arise, you will either push them away or you are going to deal with them right away. When you do not deal with them right away, they accumulate. Marriages that are put together are marriages where sin is not allowed to accumulate.

A husband cannot say, "All my behavior notwithstanding, I still honor my wife, even though I never show it." Husbands must honor their wives.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.

In today's world, options are everywhere. It takes a great effort to stay faithful, continue to honor your commitment, and do the work it takes to keep your relationship strong.

Even if jobless we should never be effortless!

You can not achieve anything if you just sit and complain.Try your best with everything you have.

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a giving to, not a falling for; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.

Dickens's humanity and compassion made an extraordinary impact on Victorian England through his writings, which remain immensely popular. This bicentenary should help renew our commitment to improving the lot of the disadvantaged of our own day." - The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster Abbey, on today's 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

Always have some project under way . . . an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time.