Quotes About Promise

I realize that I keep saying that I did not find this out and that out until later. But eventually I did, and eventually, I promise, I will tell you all about it. As John Calvin himself says, "Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

You swore to me. Does your word mean nothing?" Peter smiled wickedly, like someone who had just called checkmate. "I had my fingers crossed." "What? What the fuck are you talking about?" "That's the rules. You forgot to check.

Somewhere down the road, surely, these words would be made good.

One day Michelle

We made a promise we swore we'd always rememberNo retreat, baby, no surrender.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

Meet me in a land of hopes and dreams.

all clung to the hope that whenever America fell short of its ideals, young Americans could restore them.

A strong work ethic is a form of accountability, because it involves keeping a promise to one's employer. It is not the same thing as workaholism.

Remorse precedes true repentance. Changed behavior follows true repentance. But this necessary prelude and postlude of true repentance are not themselves the essence of repentance. True repentance is a denial that anything in us ever would or ever could satisfy God's holiness or compel his pardon. We humbly concede that we can offer him nothing for what he alone can give. Then we rest in his promise to forgive those who humbly seek him.

The promise of perseverance substitutes concern for self-preservation with love for God's purposes.

Nothing will ever separate us, neither life, nor death, nor the armies of Hell. If I don't see you again on this side of the heavenly wall, I will see you on the other.

Forever and ever Bonnie, I will always be your friend.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

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 that 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 for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

Marjorie, darling, listen to me. You know—God knows—you're not the first girl in my life nor the second, but I swear to you this is new. The reason you're so crazily in love is that I am, too. There's no other reason. It happens once in a lifetime to everyone, and I swear to God I'm beginning to think it's happened for us.

Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.

The business of wretches is wretched even in guarantee giving.

The Church finally seeks to make complete idiots out of the mass and to make them forego the paradise on earth by promising a fictitious heaven.

These were the days of fond promise, when the world was very small and there wasstill magic in it. He told them stories o fthe Secret Mountain and the Sound that could be Seen, of the Forest drowned by Sand and the trees that were time-stilled waters (...) Then, every day was a week, each month a year. A season was a decade, and every year a life.

A son is the promise that time makes to a man, the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that the person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.