Quotes About Promise

We long for that promised day, when there will be no more death or sorrow, no more crying or pain, when things as we know them are passed away. We are ready, Lord, to be instruments of Your peace, soldiers for Your kingdom.

To be indebted is to fixate on the future (Page 186)

Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.

Spring here is not spring as we know it: the cool, wet promise of snowmelt and frozen ground yielding into mud. Here, a sudden heat falls out of the sky one day, and one breathes and moves as if deposited inside a kettle of soup.

I never promised I would write the truth. I

I'll be back quick as a rumor.

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

It is always easy to break one's word to oneself.

Che pensieri soavi, che speranze, che cori, o Silvia mia! Quale allor ci apparia la vita umana e il fato! Quando sovviemmi di cotanta speme, un affetto mi preme acerbo e sconsolato, e tornami a doler di mia sventura. O natura, o natura, perché non rendi poi quel che prometti allor? perché di tanto inganni i figli tuoi?

God is bigger than you think, and He can do better than you thought.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those

Now then," Rahab said, "please swear to me by the Lord that you will show kindness to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign that you will spare the lives of my family…and that you will save us from death." Othniel did not think that Ardon would speak, but he did. "Our lives for your lives if you don't tell what we are doing," Ardon said. "We will treat you kindly and faithfully when the Lord gives us the land.

Every ending is also a beginning. We'll meet again, I promise.

GOd let women bear children so women would never give up hope. Even if here on earth women were denied everything else, God would always let them bear children. Children were a promise brighter than the rainbow.

Lui sa che lo ami?» «Lo saprà. Glielo dimostrerò ogni giorno finché riuscirà a non scordarlo mai.»

Lembra-se desse filme? Eu aquiesci com o ar vagamente culpado de quem prometera várias vezes vê-lo, sem jamais encontrar força para o fazer.

The bad smell around the transfer of lucre was that it smacked of providing for her after my death. Neither of us could quite keep that out. Therefore we gave it its moment in the spotlight. I plan on staying alive, I said. But in case I don't you'll have what you need. Just promise me you'll always buy beautiful underwear. You drive a hard bargain, she said, but okay.

I will come back to you. And you will come back to me. Wait for me.

because it's perfect. Happy and new. Filled with possibility...Everyone needed a little reminder of something whole and full of promise. Everyone needed a bit of paradise.

But down deep in his heart he knew that we all have the same promise of the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that guides all things. If we want it, we only have to plug into it with the master key of desire and trust.

I am going to do the very best I can for you.

A population, a country that venerates physical safety above all other values will ultimately give up its liberty and sanction any power seized by authority in exchange for the promise, no matter how illusory, of total security. However, absolute safety is itself chimeric, pursued by never obtained. The pursuit degrades those who engage in it as well as any nation that comes to be defined by it.