Quotes about Commitment

There is an inborn urge in each person to worship. If we don't worship God we will find something else to worship, whether it be a job, a family, money, a sport, or even ourselves.

From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.

The failure to understand the infinite depth of the human soul is often why people who are married have affairs. They stop exploring the person they married. They find somebody who appears more interesting.

Your marriage will only be as healthy as the least healthy one of you.

I am for you. I've got your back. I am committed to your best. Help me understand things from your perspective. What can we do together to change things?

It's one thing to be in love; it's another to act because of love. Love is a noun—a feeling you have—and it's also a verb, something you do.

It's not about getting rid of desire. It's about giving ourselves to bigger and better and more powerful desires. What are you channeling your energies into? If they don't go into a few, select, disciplined pursuits that you are passionate about and are willing to give your life to, then they'll dissipate into all sorts of urges and cravings that won't even begin to bring joy that the one thing could.

When you get married you're starting a conversation that never ends

When you are both intentional about moving toward the other in love, over time you build up tremendous reserves of love and grace and goodwill. Love - with spark and substance and sacrifice all together - is a cumulative phenomenon. It builds on itself, it gains a head of steam, it grows in depth and breadth and intensity. This propels you into an entirely different way of relating to each other - another kind of life altogether.

Yes. Abraham is being invited to trust God, to believe that God is good and has his best interests in mind and will be faithful to him even if Abraham makes a mess of things.

The first thing you have to do is throw yourself into whatever it is you're doing.

Throwing yourself into it begins with being grateful that you even have something to throw yourself into.