Quotes about Commitment

If I bear the name of another, I have given up my own name and my own independent life.

If Christ is to give Himself wholly to me, He must know that He has me wholly for Himself.

Jesus gave up His life to God, and by this He taught us that the only thing that life is worth living for is to give it back to God, even unto death.

It was as if everything conspired to keep him from prayer.

He chiefly used when speaking of the relations of the disciples to Himself was: Follow me.

It is always easier to be engaged with the Christianity of the past or the future than to be faithful in the Christianity of today.

Nothing short of conformity to Christ—a life wholly dedicated to God—should satisfy you.

Resolve: "I will engage in a religious life only for the love of God; and I will endeavor to act only for Him; whatever becomes of me I will always continue to act purely for the love of God.

There is but one way of being delivered from this life of self. We must follow Christ, set our hearts upon Him, listen to His teachings, give ourselves up every day, that He may be all to us, and by the power of Christ the denial of self will be a blessed, unceasing reality.

As we give ourselves entirely to God for His work, we will feel that nothing less than these great promises is what we need. Nothing less is what we may confidently expect.

As faith strengthens us for obedience, it is in turn strengthened by it. Faith is made perfect by works.

When God has begun the work of absolute surrender in you, and when God has accepted your surrender, then God holds Himself bound to care for it and to keep it. Will you believe that?