Quotes about Commitment

I look for persistence—rather than perfection—in your walk with Me.

I look for persistence—rather than perfection—in your walk with Me. P

have equipped you for specific work that I will enable you to do. What things do you need to say no to in preparation for doing this work?

IN ORDER TO DO SOMETHING WELL, you need to feel at peace about the many other things you could be doing but are not.

to proclaim your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night,

A Christian is someone who follows Jesus by devoting his or her One. Life to the kingdom vision of Jesus.

Let the Church remember this: that every maker and worker is called to serve God in his profession or trade—not outside it. Whatever we are called to "do" is not a "job" but a sacred vocation.

What does it mean to persevere? It means that we continue to believe, and that we live like believers, which means obediently. It doesn't mean sinlessness; it doesn't mean that we are on some steady and never-failing incline up into pure sanctification; it does not deny stumbling or messy spirituality; it doesn't deny doubt and problems. It simply means that the person continues to walk with Jesus and doesn't walk away from him in a resolute manner.

In the potent words of Dorothy Sayers, our vocation is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.

The heart of Babylon will always be arrogant self-sufficiency that has no need for God, no care for the people of God, and no commitment to the ways of God.

Then Martin says, as if he is writing a commentary on Matthew 6:19—24: "The acid test is not what we say, but what we do; not what we promise in words, but what we actually give in money.

We are saved by Christ, but Christ saves us into discipleship.