Quotes About Promise

Baldwin and King, no matter the temperamental distance between them, moved together as they struggled to make real the promise of American democracy. King was the preacher, Baldwin the poet—and, of course, the two are interchangeable.

Q- What is the highest possible psychic realization ... ? A- That God, the Father, speaks directly to the sons of men-even as He has promised. 440-4

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing—but we all do and call it Hope.

La fe de Abraham no apunta a Abraham, sino nos señala a Dios, al Dios que ve, al Dios que provee.

I was promised on a timeTo have reason for my rhyme;From that time unto this season,I received nor rhyme nor reason.

I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. (in a letter written while she was in college)

They rested for a while. "How about a river trip?" he said. "You've been promising that for months." "This time I mean it." "When?" "Very soon." "What made you think of that?" "I hear the call of the river." "That's the toilet," she said. "The valve is stuck again." ***

Somewhere under the heavy burden of water going nowhere, under the silence, the old rocks of the river channel waited for the promised resurrection. Promised by whom? Promised by Capt. Joseph "Seldom Seen" Smith; by Sgt. George Washington Hayduke; by Dr. Sarvis and Ms. Bonnie Abbzug, that's whom. But

Nyla was right in predicting that, for me, life would go on into old age and my promise has been kept too, for every now and then over the years, the ghosts have slipped out from the past and I have kept brief company with my friends of long ago.

But one thing it opened her eyes to, and made certain from the first instant of her new consciousness, namely, that since she loved him she could not keep her promise to marry him.

The future's bright, the future's Orange.

Promise her anything, but give her Arpege!

Next year in Jerusalem!

We'll leave a light on for you.

Full of Eastern promise.

When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.

Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing.

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away.

What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

To love, cherish, and to obey.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.