Quotes About Promise

The greatest defect of the Old Covenant was that it demanded obedience but did not provide the power for it. The new heart delights in the law of God; it is willing and able to obey it. A promise of God is a thing of faith. If you do not believe it, you cannot appropriate it or put it to use.

When God has begun the work of absolute surrender in you, and when God has accepted your surrender, then God holds Himself bound to care for it and to keep it. Will you believe that?

The value of the promise depends on the promiser; faith in the promise depends on my knowledge of the promiser.

not prayed for power for full deliverance from self. That means not only the righteous self in fellowship with God, but the unloving self in fellowship with men. And there is deliverance. "The fruit of the Spirit is love." I bring you the glorious promise of

The value of the promise depends on the promiser; faith in the promise depends on my knowledge of the promiser. It is for this reason, before Jesus gave that wonderful prayer promise, He first said, Have faith in God.

This is throughout scripture the great central promise: I am with you.

That is the secret. As the rising sun holds the promise of light for the rest of the day, so your quiet time spent waiting on God will be your promise of His presence and power throughout your day.

He will make His holy promise an actual reality in our conscious experience: "Lo, I am with you alway[s]" (Matt. 28:20). Let us see to it that our faith in His blessed Word, in His divine power, and in His holy abiding presence, is the one thing that masters our whole beings. Then Christ will indeed manifest Himself, abide with us, and dwell in our hearts as His home.

It is only the fully surrendered heart that can fully trust God for all that He has promised.

America, how's your marriage? Your two-hundred-fifty-year-old promise to stay together in sickness and in health? First thirteen states, then more and more, until fifty of you had taken the vow. Like

The only biblical prosperity gospel is a posterity gospel—the promise that generation after generation will know the goodness of God through the properly stewarded abundance of God's world.

Every time God sent a new baby in the world, he was giving mankind another chance to make things right' Babies are a bundle of hope

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.

He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.

My mother says it can't stay like this, but I believe it will. The Pants are like an omen. They stand for the promise we made to one another, that no matter what happens, we stick together. But they stand for a challenge too. It's not enough to stay in Bethesda, Maryland, and hunker down in air-conditioned houses. We promise one another that someday we'd get out in the world and figure some stuff out.

I Pantaloni ci promettevano che c'era tempo. Niente sarebbe andato perduto. Avevamo un anno intero, se ce ne fosse stato bisogno. Avevamo tutta la strada fino all'estate successiva: allora avremmo tirato fuori i Pantaloni e, insieme o separate, avremmo ricominciato da capo

However, I knew Mimi would want me to play, so I agreed to.

How did people deal with a situation like this? Maybe they'd make Mr. Nicholls promise never to do it again. Maybe he'd have to go to counseling. In any case, I knew things would start to change for the better as soon as Mom and Mrs. Nicholls talked.

that paradise awaits

The promise of spiritual life - indeed, the very thing that makes it 'spiritual' in the sense I invoke throughout this book - is that there are truths about the mind that we are better off knowing. What we need to become happier and to make the world a better place is not more pious illusions but a clearer understanding of the way things are.

I was chilled by the promise of protection that had drawn a child out of a basement and onto an exposed Sarajevan playground.

AFFIDATION  (AFFIDA'TION)  AFFIDATURE  (AFFIDA'TURE)  n.s.[from  affido, Lat.See AFFIED.] Mutual contract; mutual oath of fidelity. Dict.

And buxom, which means only obedient, is now made, in familiar phrases, to stand for wanton; because in an ancient form of marriage, before the Reformation, the bride promised complaisance and obedience, in these terms: I will be bonair and buxom in bed and at board.