Quotes about Dedication

I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute.

We tend to think we can be happy only if we're number one. But if you want to be number one, you have to devote all your time and energy to your work.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

People even lose their vocations because they find out that a man can spend forty or fifty or sixty years in a monastery and still have a bad temper.

Only a man who works purely for God can at the same time do a very good job and leave the results of the job to God alone.

Father," I answered, "I want to give God everything.

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

At its Greek root, "to believe" simply means "to give one's heart to." Thus, if we can determine what it is we give our heart to, then we will know what it is we believe.

It may be fashionable to assert that all is holy, but not many are willing to haul ass to church four or five times a day to sing about it. It's not for the faint of heart.

If monks are crazy to live the way they do, maybe the world needs more such craziness, what Matthew Kelty has termed 'the madness of great love.' My narrow world had just opened wide, and I had glimpsed such a love.

the imagination works not so much through inspiration as through perseverance. One must slog through the false starts, spot the wrong words and hold out for the right ones, and above all, be vigilant about staying on the path of revision, no matter how uncomfortable or even painful the journey might become.

He that is not with me is against me" (Mat 12:30). If you are not gathering, then you are scattering. If you are not walking in light, then you are walking in darkness! There is no neutral position;  there is no middle ground!