Quotes about Commitment

Leslie turned herself about passionately.

If you love me as I love you ?Nothing but death can part us two.

First, the word she used that we translate kindness is the Hebrew hesed. It's a word that refers to a strongly bonded relationship where one party continues to be faithfully involved with another because it is the character of the first party to do so.

Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not question such a relativistic dogma? Is not the degree of our sensitivity to the validity of the ultimate ideals and values that fluctuates rather than the ultimate ideals and values?

The central commandment is in relation to the person. But religion today has lost sight of the person. Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. It has fallen victim to the belief that the real is only that which is capable of being registered by fact-finding surveys.

Unless we are involved, the problem is not present.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.