Top 243 Vow Quotes & Sayings

A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.

I took a vow of political celibacy.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general... I feel like I'm still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?

A vow is a snare for sin

A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow is fulfilled and the promise is kept, the individual is in debt to his marriage partner. That is what he owes. 'You owe it to yourself' is not a valid excuse for breaking a marriage vow but a creed of selfishness.

To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.

Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul.

Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

Approval of what is approved of Is as false as a well-kept vow.

A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

I vow to you I am as clean as a Cherub. Would you like a taste?

It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

When you work for DC, it's sort of like working for the CIA. You have a vow of silence.

There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.

A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.

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

My sister Tricia Leigh and I vow to be whatever our niece Billie needs us to be.

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

The intention of being married is the vow, right? You want to put everything into it to make it a success.

Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink.

I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.

Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

Jesuits make a vow of obedience to the Pope. But if the Pope is a Jesuit, perhaps he has to make a vow of obedience to the General of the Jesuits! I don’t know how to resolve this … I feel a Jesuit in my spirituality; in the spirituality of the Exercises, the spirituality deep in my heart.

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

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

I vow to live fully in each moment.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

Take a vow for a life of service to others.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.

I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.

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

I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.

I try to keep myself young as possible. I vow to never let my hair go grey.

Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.

Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn't say, 'Unless it's politically uncomfortable.'

To keep a vow, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering what the vow means, and to be willing to change and to grow accordingly.

We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

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

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.

I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?

Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things.

We vow to achieve a new political landscape that is clean.

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

The dumbest childhood vow I ever made was to finish every book I started.

The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all. The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them all. The Truth cannot be told. I vow to explain it. The Way which cannot be followed is unattainable. I vow to attain it.

An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?" "Yes I’m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?" "Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow..." "I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.

I took a vow that I would see a Bengali film song playing at a nightclub.

The word of God is my vow.

Vow to seek a Calm Inner Response to the Circumstances of your Life