Vow Quotes

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Taken, Passion

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.116, Tara Publishing

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• Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Two, People

  Myles Munroe (2005). “Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage”, p.27, Destiny Image Publishers

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  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.

  Kirk Cameron

  Faith, Christian, Spiritual

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• The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Determination, Essence, Teeth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Purity, Capacity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• I love thee with the passion put to use
  In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
  I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
  With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,
  Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
  I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Famous Love, Grief, Passion

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Buddhist, Morning

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Dec 18, 2015

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• Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

  Thomas Fuller

  Storm, Calm, Quiet

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• 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.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Believe, Promise

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1823). “Queen Mab: a philosophical poem : with notes”, p.110

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• Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

  William Penn

  Nature, Resolution, Hasty

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.41

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• Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Men, Promise, Inconsistency

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.111

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• In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Brother, Teaching, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there are three lives before you: His life, Her Life, and Your life together.

  Ann Aguirre

  Loneliness, Rain, Two

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• I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Light, Everyday, Needs

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1903). “A Selection from Mrs. Browning's Poems”

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• I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Passion, Men, Use

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.198, Everyman's Library

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• If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Men, Wife, Dear Love

  "To My Dear and Loving Husband" l. 1 (1678)

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

  Tertullian

  Religious, Divorce, These Days

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• Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

  John Keats

  Valentines Day, Kissing, Romantic Love

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.75, Рипол Классик

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Marriage, Sweet Love, Educational

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Gold, East, Riches

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.

  William Arthur Ward

  Attitude, Sincere, Strive

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• Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

  Dick Gregory

  Marriage, Political, Promise

  Dick Gregory (1972). “Dick Gregory's political primer”

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• And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.

  Kiersten White

  Love, Romantic, Reality

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• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Love, Life, Positive

  Attributed to Aristotle in Diogenes Laertius "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" translated by C. D. Yonge and Henry G. Bohn (p. 188), 1853.

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• And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Desire Love, Headstone, Gravestone

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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