Commitment Quote by Anonymous

Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they…

— Anthony de Mello

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

— Franz Liszt

When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual…

— Marc Maron

...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in…

— Immanuel Kant

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on…

— George Santayana

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.

— David S Muzzey

“Religious faith—for all its problems, despite its maddening tendency to replicate ungrace—lives on because we sense the numinous beauty of a gift undeserved that…

— Philip Yancey

Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for…

— Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend:…

— Al Alvarez

Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths…

— Martin Luther