Sentence examples for committed oneself from inspiring English sources

"When it truly becomes impossible to sustain a marriage relationship, the obligation to do so is released," she writes, adding, "as when in the Middle Ages a broken leg made it impossible to continue on a pilgrimage to which one had committed oneself".

It's about committing oneself to a task that seems big and impossible.

At stake is what it means to commit oneself: to a person, a place, a moral imperative.

But justice requires not so much sentimentalism but a constant perseverance to commit oneself to the common good.

He added that both men "agreed on the importance of reconstructing a climate of dialogue and that all sides commit oneself to implementing the Minsk accords".

Bellah is careful to argue that committing oneself to evolutionary theory does not mean abandoning the notion that human beings engage in purposeful action.

'The moment one commits oneself, then providence moves too,' wrote WH Murray in his book about the 1951 Scottish Himalayan expedition.

"One needs to be able to recognize and commit oneself to tasks with inflated importance and unreal deadlines while making oneself feel that these tasks are important and urgent".

A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Francis highlighted the "need to commit oneself in a sincere and great effort to achieve peace", and that both sides should work to ease tensions.

To take seriously the awareness of a categorical imperative to act rightly is to commit oneself to work for an ideal state of affairs in which perfect goodness and happiness coincide.

But Mr. Crouch was not simply seeking endorsement from the crowd; he was seeking souls for his Lord and to answer "yeah" was to commit oneself to something larger than a memorable concert.