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    Patricia Fripp
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    A team is a group of people who may not be equal in experience, talent, or education but in commitment.

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    When we say to people, 'I will pray for you,' we make a very important commitment. The sad thing is that this remark often remains nothing but a well-meant expression of concern.

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    Audrey Hepburn
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    If I get married, I want to be very married.

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
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    The essential thing “in heaven and earth” is... that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life...

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    Rita Rudner
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    When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

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    Dave Barry
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    Ecclesiastes 7:8, Nehemiah 6:15-16, 2 Chronicles 15:7, Philippians 1:6, 2 Timothy 4:7, Psalm 37:5
    “My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.”

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    Emile Griffin
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    [A Retreat is] a generous commitment to our friendship with God.

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    Scot McKnight
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    God's love entails a covenant commitment on the part of with us, and that covenant commitment means a promise to be with us and for us, and God's covenant is shaped toward our redemption.

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    Bob Goff
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    The power of love is in the sacrifice and commitment it requires. Sacrifice and commitment always travel with love and action. Love looks like showing up with hands to help even when we don’t know wha...

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    Oswald Chambers
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    Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Luke 14:33
    Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or ha...

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    Timothy Keller
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    In sharp contrast with our culture, the Bible teaches that the essence of marriage is a sacrificial commitment to the good of the other. That means that love is more fundamentally action than emotion....

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    Brenda Salter McNeil
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    Reconciliation is about how to relate even after forgiveness and justice have occurred. It’s about how to delve even deeper into relationship with one another. An absence of hostility is possible with...

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    Tim Dearborn
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    Lack of interest in mission is not fundamentally caused by an absence of compassion or commitment, nor by lack of information or exhortation. And lack of interest in mission is not remedied by more sh...

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    Robert E. Webber
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    John 4:23-24, Matthew 25:35-40, Romans 12:1-2, Psalm 96:7-9, Matthew 6:9-13, Hebrews 10:19-20
    Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do truth by their order and in their substance. This is why so many young people tod...

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    Kevin DeYoung
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    The problem with the myth of “the one” is that it assumes that affection is the glue that holds the marriage together, when really it is your commitment to marriage that safeguards the affection. So d...

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    Ed Stetzer and Mike Dodson
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    Comeback leaders know that our Lord considers commitment to Him and His desires an indispensable ingredient to growing spiritually and numerically.

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    Tod E. Bolsinger
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    Psalm 15:1-2, Ephesians 4:15, 2 Corinthians 1:12, Colossians 3:12-14, Romans 12:9-10
    Relational congruence is the ability to be fundamentally the same person with the same values in every relationship, in every circumstance and especially amidst crisis. It is the internal capacity to ...

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    Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch
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    You cannot build a church on consumers. They'll desert you at a moment's notice because they have no commitments beyond meeting their own needs. Jesus can take twelve disciples and build a mov...

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    Fred Sanders
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    The best liturgies in use in Christian churches are ancient, well-worn compositions permeated with scriptural language skillfully deployed across a series of pastoral pronouncements, prayers, congrega...

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    Patrick Morley
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    If you want to lead a balanced life, decide how many hours you want to work and stick to your guns. Put work appointments on your calendar in pencil, but put your family commitments in pen. Love is ti...

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    Ronald Rohlheiser
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    So much of our unhappiness comes from comparing our lives, our friendships, our loves, our commitments, our duties, our bodies and our sexuality to some idealized and non-Christian vision of things wh...

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    Carnegie Samuel Calia
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    Every congregation looking for revitalization must declare its mission succinctly, and then outline the essential tenets that encompass its theological outlook and emphases. The congregation then shou...

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    Brad Gregory
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    Human life in the western world today... is characterized by an enormously wide range of incompatible truth claims pertaining to human values, aspirations, norms, morality, and meaning— A hyperplurali...

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    Mike Martin
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    Evading self-acknowledgment of our faults enables us to avoid painful moral emotions: guilt and remorse for harming others; shame for betraying your own ideals; self-contempt for not meeting even our ...

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    Walter Wangerin Jr.
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    Song of Solomon 8:6-7, Hebrews 13:4, Matthew 19:4-6, Genesis 2:18, 21-24
    Marriage begins when two people make the clear, unqualified promise to be faithful, each to the other, until the end of their days. That spoken promise makes the difference. A new relationship is init...

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    Elisabeth Elliot
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    Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

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    Samuel Johnson
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    Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

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    Stephen Charnock
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    In every repetition of communion by presenting the sacrament God confirms his resolution to stick to his covenant; and by eating it the receiver commits himself to keep close to the condition of faith...

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    Tim Muehlhoff & Richard Langer
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    Joshua 24:14-15, Daniel 1:8-21 , Exodus 1:15-21, Romans 14:5-6, Acts 4:18-20 , Psalm 15:1-2
    We might say that convictions are firmly held moral or religious beliefs that guide our beliefs, actions, or choices.
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