Quotes of: Commitment Keyword

On the ethics of war the Quran and the New Testament are worlds apart. Whereas Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek, the Quran tells us, 'Whoso commits aggression against you, do you commit aggression against him' (2:194). The New Testament says no...

God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter

Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. “I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted ...

Brida

Although drinking to the point of becoming incapacitated is unwise and risky for anyone, the blame for rape must be put on the rapist who preys on a drunk woman, not a drunk woman who becomes prey. If my car is stolen after I’ve parked it with the ...

I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet

[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false witnesses, plunderers and fraudsters ar...

Sermons 1-19

Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating, and to say, "I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want to be part of that. ...

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

Sociologists argue that in contemporary Western society the marketplace has become so dominant that the consumer model increasingly characterizes most relationships that historically were covenantal, including marriage. Today we stay connected to peo...

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

How hard it is, to be forced to the conclusion that people should be, nine tenths of the time, left alone! - When there is that in me that longs for absolute commitment. One of the poem-ideas I had was that one could respect only the people who knew ...

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Acceptance doesn't mean tolerating unhealthy relationships or problem behaviour. In relationships, acceptance has two key qualities. First, it means being willing to recognize that your partner, right here and right now, is struggling too. It means a...

The Woman's Guide to How Men Think: Love, Commitment, and the Male Mind

Alan Turing: Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. You think that because you're sitting where you are, a...

The Imitation Game

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

The Closing of the American Mind

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

When you commit a crime to upgrade yourself, your sin becomes a blessing, but your blessing kills you before your time.

Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

To resist evil is to stand firm against the wrong committed without reacting to the wrong-doer!

A Cup of Grace for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power

I’m ready to commit to her at any time. But for god’s sake, I’m not even sure she’s heterosexual. It’d be madness to put a lesbian in charge of my ejaculatory functions.

Cryptonomicon

You don’t need to provide answers to question like “why were you born?”. Be committed to what excites you and what excites you will provide the answers!

Daily Drive 365

Any blunder committed in the past opens the avenue for the success of the future. However, the success of the future massively is fueled by the how positively the mistakes of the past are handled!

Daily Drive 365

You know some religious scholars believe that when faced with overwhelming temptation you should commit a small sin just to relieve the pressure a bit.

The Dark Divine

Sex is a commitment...Once you're there you can't go back to holding hands...and when you give yourself both mentally and physically...well, you're completely vulnerable.

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