Quotes: Vow

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

You’re lucky I took me a vow of non-violence, or you’d be suffering some pain right now.

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.