Quotes about Commitment

Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship.

What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

I wanted to propose marriage.

I wasn't some dilettante.

Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.

Intentions must mature into commitments if we are to become persons with definition, with character, with substance.

The mark of a certain kind of genius is the ability and energy to keep returning to the same task relentlessly, imaginatively, curiously, for a lifetime. Never give up and go on to something else; never get distracted and be diverted to something else.

Many claim to have been born again, but the evidence for mature Christian discipleship is slim.

Whether we like it or not, the moment we confess Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, that is, from the time we become a Christian, we are at the same time a member of the Christian church.