Quotes About Promise

Giving voice to God's Word is a method of calling for things that God has given by promise and are not yet manifest.

God had promised Abraham something that was absolutely impossible in the natural. Abraham was too old, Sarah was too old; and God does not violate His laws. So God changed their names! Abraham means father of nations and Sarah means mother of nations. Every time Sarah stuck her head out the tent door and called Abraham! he didn't hear Abraham!- he heard Father of Nations! The Bible says, Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Rom. 10:17).

His best talent had yet to be determined, unless you counted unrealized potential.

Days of yore when America was no more than a strip of land stretching a couple hundred miles west of the Atlantic and the rest was just a very compelling idea.

In the temptation of Jesus, there really remains nothing except God's word and promise.

God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need.

The matters we or the world might consider trivial, He cares about and wants to remedy. He longs to relieve our worries and has promised to supply our most fundamental needs.

strange land while we await the return of Christ.

El seguir a Cristo implica que debemos creer que Dios es quien dice ser y que hará lo que manifiesta que hará.

The size of a challenge should never be gauged in terms of our capability. What we have to offer will never be enough. God never calls us to provide; that's His responsibility. Instead, He calls us to commit whatever we have—even if it's no more than a sack lunch. His call comes with a promise:

Scientists would then build a demonstration fusion power plant that would begin operations in 2035 or 2040. After five decades of broken promises, lies, delusions, and self-deception, it will finally be true. Fusion energy will be thirty years away.

But there is a dirty little secret. Fusion is not clean.

Then I'll take you there.

I vow I am, and always will be, constant and faithful in my love for you, Anais. Nothing you or anyone else does shall alter these feelings. I am forever loving, forever waiting, forever yearning...forever yours.

Oh my God! Lindsay cried. I swear I shall practice celibacy every day for the rest of my life! I swear it, Anais.

Go then, I will keep a herring in the window for you.

The thought of giving up alcohol crossed my mind too, but I was soon reminded of the promise to Ketel One, Grey Goose, and other top-shelf vodkas that I had made in my early twenties. Never turn your back on someone who has asked nothing in return.

There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential

During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins.

It was Pidge's observation that toleration rather than love was what kept her parents together. They were yoked like horses to a plow and they moved through life pulling something neither could see that kept them a safe distances from each other. There was something both admirable and sad in their marital work ethic, and Pidge promised herself she wouldn't settle like they had. It was a promise she broke.

My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'

I told my grandma a long time ago that I was going to take my mom and dad out the hood.

I can tell you, if I'm elected president, it won't be on the Koran, and it won't be on the Book of Mormon.

what a rich book might be made about buds and, perhaps, sprouts!