Quotes about Commitment

I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

I've grown up in motorsport since I was 12 or 13 years of age; I've never been on a management training course.

Manchester United are a huge club on the global stage. I came here to win everything. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come here.

Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.

The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

You're assuming that love is a feeling. It isn't. It can involve feelings, but often it doesn't. Love acts out of faith, which rarely involves feelings. Love is action; it's deciding something is true and living out of that belief.

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

I am quitting this thing, but not what you think. I am not going away. I will give you this, my love, and I will not bargain or barter any longer. I will love you, as sure as He has loved

Our 'behavior' will not be changed long with self-discipline, but fall in love and a human will accomplish what he never thought possible. The laziest of men will swim the English channel to win his woman. I think what Rick said is worth repeating that by accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

The same is true in social relationships. Commitment in a relationship takes time.

When I met couples whose marriages were thriving after thirty and forty years, none of them were riding an emotional roller coaster of passion and then resentment. Instead, they loved each other as an act of their conscious will. They were more in control of their love than their "love" was in control of them.