Quotes about Commitment

Let the record show I would never turn down a role with Lady Gaga.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

I'm going to mess up. But I'm going to get back, you know, and get after it and try to do better the next day.

You just go out and do the best that you can. I think people feel that, and they embrace it, and it's a part of what makes Metallica special.

I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

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

You can transform your nation into a prison because you are committed to an ideology.

Beginning anew" means being determined not to repeat the negative things we have done in the past. A new era begins when we commit ourselves to living in mindfulness. When we vow to ourselves, "I am determined not to behave as I did in the past," transformation occurs immediately.

The Christian liturgy draws us deeper and deeper into the innermost recesses of mystery, but then lands us back out on the street. We are not allowed to stay at the altar. We have to go back out to committee meetings, traffic jams, laundry, dirty diapers—where we will be enacting what we have encountered in the liturgy.

Without courage we can never attain to true simplicity. Cowardice keeps us "double minded" —hesitating between the world and God.

For it seems to me that the first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really part of his own life, not by rationalizing it but by living it.

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