Quotes about Commitment

Here I stand, I can do no other.

that prudence of yours makes you veer about, determined not to commit yourself to either side, but to pass safely between Scylla and Charybdis; with the result that, finding yourself battered and buffeted by the waves in the midst of the sea, you assert everything you deny and deny everything you assert.

Since God will have us leave father and mother for his sake, certainly he will have us leave lords (governors) for his sake.

In all other things I will yield to any one, but I neither can nor will forsake and deny the word.

We must pray and do our daily work, but everything we do must flow from faith.

You must die if you would live under this King. You must bear the cross and the hatred of the whole world. You must not flee from ignominy, poverty, hunger, and thirst, in other words, all the evil that floods the earth.

For all our life should be baptism, and the fulfilling of the sign, or sacrament, of baptism; we have been set free from all else and wholly given over to baptism alone

The Law has a promise but it is a conditional promise, depending upon whether people fulfill the Law.

For we have vowed enough in baptism, more than we can ever fulfill; if we give ourselves to the keeping of this one vow, we shall have all we can do.

God doesn't test us because he enjoys it. He tests us to find out whether we love him above all things.

The Epistle to the Galatians is my epistle. To it I am as it were in wedlock. It is my Katherine.

That is, as he says here, he should bend off neither to the right hand nor to the left, but move forward straight and firmly in prosperity and adversity, in strength and weakness, in glory and shame, clinging faithfully and bravely to the Word of God alone.