Quotes About Promise

Only what is mysterious, undiscovered, and veiled attracts us; only what is hidden radiates magic that promises untold possibilities.

Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently from the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

A good host is the one who believes that his guest is carrying a promise he wants to reveal to anyone who shows genuine interest.

There are two realities to which you must cling. First, God has promised that you will receive the love you have been searching for. And second, God is faithful to that promise. So stop wandering around. Instead, come home and trust that God will bring you what you need. Your whole life you have been running about, seeking the love you desire. Now it is time to end that search. Trust that God will give you that all-fulfilling love and will give it in a human way.

Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.

We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

There is more day left to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

And it was in the mitigated midnight of these approximations that she had discerned the promise of her dawn.

Suddenly she said to him with extraordinary beauty: I engage myself to you forever. The beauty was in everything, and he could have separated nothing—couldn't have thought of her face as distinct from the whole joy. Yet her face had a new light. And I pledge you—I call God to witness!—every spark of my faith; I give you every drop of my life.

I do nothing for any one in the world but you. But for you I'll do anything. Good, good, said Kate. That's how I like you. He waited again an instant. Then you swear to it? To 'it'? To what? Why, that you do 'like' me. For it's only for that, you know, that I'm letting you do—well, God knows what with me.

You were reserved for my future

At a time when his thoughts had been a good deal of a burden to him her sudden arrival, which promised nothing and was an open-handed gift of fate, had refreshed and quickened them, given them wings and something to fly for. Poor Ralph had been for many weeks steeped in melancholy; his outlook, habitually somber, lay under the shadow of a deeper cloud.

Un soldado entusiasta que tomó parte en la expedición puso en verso su visión de la promesa de gloria para España: Españoles, españoles, ¡Que todos os han temor!

I want to get more familiar with you. I love you. I loved you when you came and sat on the bed--all that second afternoon was like warm mist--and I hear again the way you say my name--with that queer accent of yours. You arouse in me such a mixture of feelings, I don't know how to approach you. Only come to me--get closer and closer to me. It will be beautiful, I promise you.

Believe me; there's nothing clean, nothing healthy, nothing promising about this age of wonders - except the telling.

J'ai besoin que l'on me promette presque tout, tant j'ai vécu longtemps, trop longtemps dans l'ombre du soleil. Je veux de la lumière et de la chasteté – et un feu solaire dans les tripes. Je veux la déception et la désillusion, pour qu'il me soit donné de compléter le sublime triangle et de ne plus avoir sans cesse à quitter la planète pour voler dans l'espace.

And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 28:2

The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways." Deuteronomy 28:7

The key difference between what appears to be impossible to us and what is actually possible is a word from our Master!

descendants would be as numerous as the stars. Because of what God would do through Abram and Sarai, all the families of the earth would be blessed. This revelation from God would

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! The watershed of Time, from which the streams Of Yesterday and To-morrow take their way, One to the land of promise and of light, One to the land of darkness and of dreams!

Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. But in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in tormented chase of the demon phantom that, some time or other, swims before all human hearts; while chasing such over this round globe, they either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.