Quotes about Commitment

People will die for their religious beliefs if they sincerely believe they're true, but people won't die for their religious beliefs if they know their beliefs are false.

Bleed with us.

Wallace shared with the graduates, "In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Followership starts with Jesus, stays with Jesus, goes with Jesus, and ends with Jesus.

Followership is not an easy path, and Jesus never pretended otherwise.

How many Nicodemites are there in every corner of Christianity whose versitis has caused them to be more committed to words than to the Word Made Flesh? How many have made a religion of words and lost sight of God's Image-Made-Story?

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. —G. K. Chesterton12

If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?

For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.

We've learned that sometimes a lack of conflict in a marriage means you are not fighting for it. There are times you must battle to become one.

no excuses. I accept full responsibility

The point is that love gives even when it is not returned. Once Love has chosen, He does not change His mind.