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Quotes About Promise

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
~ John Buchan
It was a soft breathless June morning, with a promise of sultriness later...
~ John Buchan
What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.
~ John Bunyan
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him" (1 Corinthians 2:9).
~ John Bytheway
fundos geridos por] jovens brilhantes e dinâmicos que prometiam realizar milagres com o dinheiro das outras pessoas, […] [mas] que no fim inevitavelmente geraram prejuízos para o público".
~ John C. Bogle
It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.
~ John Calvin
let us remember that while life is promised in Christ to all who believe, only a small part of the people are believers. Christ
~ John Calvin
the Holy City shall not be moved from its place because God dwells in it and is always ready to bring it help.
~ John Calvin
Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts by the Holy Spirit
~ John Calvin
For we not only discover God by admiring His incomprehensible essence, a thing which still lies hid in the hope of the promise, but we see Him through the greatness of His creation, and the consideration of His justice, and the aid of His daily providence:
~ John Cassian
The door, when I tried it, was locked, but a locked door is more the promise of security than security itself.
~ John Connolly
She was night without the promise of dawn, darkness without light.
~ John Connolly
aside. "How long will it take?" He was scared, and he wasn't pretending. "Not long," I said. "Not long at all." You
~ John Connolly
I could not live without seasons, for in seasons are reflected in the rhythms of our existence: of birth and maturity, or decline and decay, yet always with the promise of renewal for those who remain.
~ John Connolly
Do you Barble take this Daily Alice to be your awful wedded life for bed or for worse insidious in stealth for which or for poor or to have unto whole until death you do part?
~ John Crowley
I do," Smoky said. "I do too," Daily Alice said. "Wring," Doctor Word said. "And now you pounce you, man on wife.
~ John Crowley
And he had promised, thinking of the Muslim letter-readers who must cover their ears when they read letters for their clients, so as not to overhear the contents.
~ John Crowley
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee (Heb. 13:5).
~ John D. Morris
I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond; that character — not wealth or power or position — is of supreme worth.
~ John D. Rockefeller (Jr.)
Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate--unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land
~ John Dewey
O my America! my new-found land.
~ John Donne
Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore My love was infinite, if spring makes it more.
~ John Donne
I love you, and I promise you I will support any reasonable endeavor you ever embark upon. But we are talking about twenty-five thousand dollars. Twenty-five thousand. And you have proven yourself to be a good man and a good son. But right now, you are a very poor investment.
~ John Duffy
For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.
~ Cristina Saralegui