Quotes about Commitment

God said that when a man and a woman are married, the two will become one flesh, but He never said it would be easy. Good relationships require a lot of hard work, education, and willingness to meet each other's needs.

Every time a situation arises that could be stressful or would cause us to be anxious or worried, we have to renew our commitment to trust God instead.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it's done right.

Yahweh is not unfettered but is constrained by a hard, relentless commitment made to Israel. The very character of Yahweh, as Yahweh has articulated that identity, gives Moses and Israel a toehold against God and a space from which to speak imperatives that Yahweh must heed.

working for your daed every day was like going to the dentist to get a root canal.

When love's involved, there's got to be a way.

Psalm 34:4, which she had committed to memory, popped into her mind: "I sought the LORD, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears." Then she though of Psalm 37:5 "Commit thy way unto the LORD; turst also in him: and he shall bring it to pass." She'd found that passage in Grandma's Bible and had quoted it often as a reminder that she should trust the Lord in all things, while she committed her way unto him.

Baptism is faith in action.

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

It is a great thing when I discover I am no longer my own but His. If the ten shillings in my pocket belong to me, then I have full authority over them. But if they belong to another who has committed them to me in trust, then I cannot buy what I please with them, and I dare not lose them. Real Christian life begins with knowing this.

Attempting to follow Him without denying the self is the root of all failures.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.