Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

The children won't leave without me; I won't leave without the King]; and the King will never leave.

I am a very big admirer of Bejoy's films and have waited for five months to be part of his film. But I have no regrets and will wait for an indefinite time as, if I love and believe in something, I do it completely and unconditionally.

Angel, a crowd of millions couldn’t hide you from me. I found you once. I’ll always find you.

Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.

I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.

They also swear who only stand and wait.

Devotion is diligence without assurance

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

There is no point drumming up noise about a cause, if you are not willing to take a beating for it.

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.

Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

I'm gonna give all I've got to giveCross my heart, and I hope to live.