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Quotes About Vows

The Templars were sworn to poverty, chastity, and obedience.
~ Unknown
The taking of vows is an act of faith. If people were faithful by nature, vows would not be necessary; their yes would be yes and their no would be no. But it is because people are not inherently faithful nor honest nor loving that they must stand up and declare they will be.
~ Mike Mason
Four Universal (Bodhisattva) Vows: "Sentient beings are numberless, I vow to save them; the deluding passions are inexhaustible, I vow to destroy them; the Dharma gates are manifold, I vow to know them; the Buddha Way is supreme, I vow to master it.
~ Unknown
No doubt the shortness of your memories is a very convenient thing for you; for without it I really don't know how you could have the conscience to repudiate your debts, swear in your witness boxes, take your marriage vows, traverse your divorce petitions, or do half the things that you do do. But, owing to the perfection of our remembrance, I can recall every trifle of the life that I then enjoyed with him.
~ Ouida
Cthulhu takes vow breaking very seriously. If they will break a vow to their spouse, what is to keep them from breaking their vows to Cthulhu? Besides pain and torture followed by a horrible death and an eternity of pain.)
~ Unknown
We waltzed beneath God's point of view knowing no ending to our rendezvous we expressed such sweet vows - My Madrigal
~ Patti Smith
People who filed for divorce have reached a point in their lives where they are no longer able to honor the commitment they made in their wedding vows.
~ Unknown
How unbelievably naive we both were that night. We clung hard to each other, making vows we couldn't keep and should never have spoken aloud. That's how love is sometimes. I already loved him more than I'd ever loved anything or anyone. I knew he needed me absolutely, and I wanted him to go on needing me forever.
~ Paula McLain
Even when other things come in loud, we have to keep choosing each other. That's marriage. You can't only say the words once and think they'll stick. You have to say them over and over, and then live them with all you've got.
~ Paula McLain
How unbelievably naïve we both were that night. We clung hard to each other, making vows we couldn't keep and should never have spoken aloud. That's how love is sometimes. I already loved him more than I'd ever loved anything or anyone. I knew he needed me absolutely, and I wanted him to go on needing me forever.
~ Paula McLain
But I made an issue of the precise wording of the vows. I wanted liberalized ones, with no outmoded Pauline nonsense exacting from the bride the promise to 'obey' the groom. Here I put my foot down, rather in the manner of a husband determined to show at the outset who was boss. 'I'll have no obedience around here!' I said, banging the table. 'Is that clear?' 'Is it an order?' 'Yes.
~ Peter De Vries
These offerings are in addition to the offerings for the LORDís Sabbaths, and in addition to your gifts, to all your vow offerings, and to all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.
~ Leviticus 23:38
he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.
~ Numbers 6:3
All the days of his separation, he is not to eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.
~ Numbers 6:4
But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.
~ Numbers 30:5
and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.
~ Numbers 30:7
and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her and does not prohibit her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.
~ Numbers 30:11
But if her husband nullifies them on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or pledges, shall stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will absolve her.
~ Numbers 30:12
But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.
~ Numbers 30:14
But if he nullifies them after he hears of them, then he will bear her iniquity.”
~ Numbers 30:15
Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
~ Deuteronomy 12:17
But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.
~ Deuteronomy 12:26
You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
~ Deuteronomy 23:18
He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”
~ Judges 16:11