Quotes about Commitment

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

So, too, David, after he has prayed the ways of God be made known to him so that he may walk in his truth, immediately adds, "Unite my heart to fear thy name" [Ps. 86:11; cf. Ps. 119:33]. By these words he means that even well-disposed persons have been subject to so many distractions that they readily vanish or fall away unless they are strengthened to persevere.

It is not for us to ask the Lord to discharge us from his army, no matter what fighting we have done. For Christ will have no discharged soldiers, except those who have overcome death itself.

Therefore by the example of Abram, entire self-renunciation is enjoined, that we may live and die to God alone.

So also we, if we are to give ourselves wholly to Christ, must break away from all the entanglements of this world.

There is no end and no limit to the obstacles of the man who wants to pursue what is right and at the same time shrinks back from self-denial.

May we be prepared, whatever happens, rather to undergo a hundred deaths than to turn aside from the profession of true piety, in which we know our safety to be laid up. And may we so glorify thy name as to be partakers of that glory which has been acquired for us through the blood of thine only-begotten Son. Amen.

The Church is our mother, inasmuch as God has committed to her the kind office of bringing us up in the faith until we attain full age.

Whoever wishes to have the half of Christ, loses   the whole.

And this is the evidence of faith that we never allow ourselves to be torn away from Christ and the promises we have in him. The

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.

The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.