Quotes about Commitment

Faith describes our whole way of looking at life and how we act on that.

We have to die, and the choice is ours. If we don't, we are still holding on to something. And if we are holding on, we aren't really following. Just sort of following. Standing around. [Oh God, what did I sign up for? This Christianity thing is hard. Deep breath . . .] The apostle Paul chimes in, too: I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. (Galatians 2:19—20)

Without its unwavering commitment to adaptation over time, the Bible would have died a quick death over two thousand years ago. Its existence as a source of spiritual truth that transcends specific times and places is made possible by its flexibility and adaptive nature—one of the many paradoxes we need to embrace when it comes to the Bible.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.

This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”

saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,

Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; but if not, let me know, so that I may go elsewhere.”