Quotes about Commitment

You might not need a man--but I need you. That's why women marry, Elizabeth-- to give their inner strength to some weak man.

To let go of even life, if need be, and accept his calling.

Goin' to the altar. I mean, do ya feel different, or anything?" "Well, it ain't the goin' to the altar," said Willie. I had the feelin' that he was repeatin' what the preacher had said. "It's the prayin' thet makes the difference

You are not asking me. I am asking you. Our lives are in God's hands now. Perhaps he has plans, a mission for us to fulfill. Instead of a soldier of Rome, you might now be a messenger of God. But if not, then I still choose to be your wife, for whatever time he allows us to have.

I believe the Lord performed this fearsome sign so we would clearly understand that choices must be made. Either we are fully with him, or we are with the world. We will soon be forced to declare our allegiance, and in doing so, we must accept that the world may then cast us out.

He says that other men can run their lives in this order: God, wife, work; but his has to be God, work, wife, and he won't ask a woman to take the lesser position.

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.

We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.