Quotes about Commitment

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to "clear the numberless ascensions"* in about two minutes.

God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.

Discipleship is based not on devotion to abstract ideals, but on devotion to a person, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

When Jesus drives something home to you through His Word, don't try to evade it. If you do, you will become a religious impostor. Examine the things you tend simply to shrug your shoulders about, and where you have refused to be obedient, and you will know why you are not growing spiritually. As Jesus said, Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã…"First . . . go . . . ." Even at the risk of being thought of as fanatical, you must obey what God tells you.