Quotes about Commitment

Everyone wants to be worth a little sacrifice.

Feelings were not enough. There must be more. There must be trust, respect, honor. All that she longed to give Quillan. A warmth of appreciation filled her. She loved him with something that went beyond feelings.

If Gilbert had been asked to describe his ideal woman the description would have answered point for point to Anne … He had made up his mind, also, that his future must be worthy of its goddess. … But he meant to keep himself worthy of Anne's friendship and perhaps some distant day her love; and he watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass in judgment on it.

They belonged to each other; and, no matter what life might hold for them, it could never alter that. Their happiness was in each other's keeping and both were unafraid.

And although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Are you unstable about your relationship to Christ?

I really do believe it you can live through remodeling a home, you can live the rest of your lives together.

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can't understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

The goal is not to get into a relationship; the goal is to be in a relationship.