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"The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy."
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"A promise is something that has been given but not yet realized."
"Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship."
"Yes, there's plenty of fish in the sea, but be gifted with a rare catch: that one which lives with "forever faithfulness.""
"To have and hold. Not forever, maybe-not forever, for sure-and not figuratively. But literally. And now. Now, he was hers."
"I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver."
"Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond."
"I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me."
"The follower aspires with all his strength to be what he admires. And then, remarkably enough, even though he lives amongst a 'Christian people,' he incurs the same peril as he did when it was dangerous to openly confess Christ. And because of the follower's life, it will become evident who the admirers are, for the admirers will become agitated with him. Even these words will disturb many - but then they must likewise belong to the admirers."
"To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for."
"Commitment is a thing of choice, not a thing of force."
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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."
"The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."
"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."
"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."
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