Quotes About Promise

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans for good, not evil. To give you a future and a hope.

First Thessalonians 5:24 would have to hold true: "He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it." If God had called us, He would bring it to pass.

I promise I won't eat you. Unless you die. If you die I'm going to eat you.

And still the storm approaches. And there's nothing I can do. So I wait and watch and feel his breath against my face, cool and brave. His salt licks my skin, his promise brushes my hair. His fury drives the wind to touch my cheek and whisper something I can't hear. I think he loves me. I think he comes to see me. I am young. I will learn

Twinkie, you keep me out of jail and I'll keep you outta the loony bin.

Religions at least give hope; that's something, even if it's based on dreams. But those who promise heaven here on earth, whether it's Communists or Masons, they're the worst of the worst.

Stay the night, said the officer, patting a confiscated couch. I'll keep my hands off you. I promise. You have more than hands, said Elie. My feet are safe, too, said the officer. He pointed to a hole in his boots, and they laughed.

Here comes the sun, and I say It's all right.

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.

[Y]our life is a journey, not a rest. You are travelling to the promised land, from the cradle to the grave.

Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and you don't know whether or not I will keep my word, but my men can tell you that I always do;" whereupon my cow-punchers, hunters, and miners solemnly nodded their heads and commented in chorus, exactly as if in a comic opera, "He always does; he always does!

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

The world promises things that are temporal and small, and it is served with great eagerness. I (Christ) promise things that are great and eternal, and the hearts of mortals are slow to stir.

In the morning consider that you may not live till evening, and when evening comes do not dare to promise yourself the dawn.

For a little reward men make a long journey; for eternal life many will scarce lift a foot once from the ground. Mean reward is sought after; for a single piece of money sometimes there is shameful striving; for a thing which is vain and for a trifling promise, men shrink not from toiling day and night.

LARS Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.

There is no soul under heaven that commonly lies under the commanding power of the Word, but that soul that has an interest in the Word of Promise.

There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.

Oxford philosopher John Austin pointed out that saying, "I promise," is a whole different linguistic deal

and then you would never be happy." 21. ?Yet We made them known to others thus, that they would know the promise of God is true, and that there can be no doubt about the end of time.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

we sat down; not wishing to part in the tumult and blaze of Piccadilly. I had told her again that she should share in my good fortune, if I met with any; and that I would never forsake her, as soon as I had power to protect her.

I was a very naughty kid, who'd say 'I'd write tomorrow.'