Quotes about Commitment

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God's help to do just that.

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union the sexual from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make themselves whole.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

They asked her (Ruth Graham) did she ever think about divorce and she said, 'No, I've never thought of divorce in all these 35 years of marriage, but,' she said, 'I did think of murder a few times.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Don't be so busy 'working' for God that you don't do what God has asked you to do.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.