Quotes About Promise

Romance is a tender kiss with a lingering promise of more to come.

When Peter says, "Baptism . . . now saves you," he's saying something similar to what we affirm when we say, "The gospel saves you." The gospel is God's promise. It's the promise that the death and resurrection of Jesus have dealt with the problem of sin and judgment—if we put our faith in Jesus. Baptism is that promise in physical form.

And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

I want to say to all of you that when I take my oath of office I will do my absolute best to use all of my abilities for all of the people of Ireland.

Be there because Barack Obama and Joe Biden will deliver America the change we so desperately need.

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

A fire had begun to spread in me. It was burning now in my stomach and my lungs were dry as old leaves, my heart had a herded pressure which gave promise to explode.

stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time. Barack Obama At the Lincolm Memorial concert on National Mall in Washington, January 18, 2009, two days before his inauguration as US President.

It is impossible for God to lie. Oh, take this precious truth into your heart, and it will shed a warm sunlight over all the landscape of your yet shadowy existence.

If we climb this high I swear we'll never die.

As he strode through the deserted city, he thought of the New Years of his childhood, before he was ten, before the Change, when the city had still glowed with the soft, deep enchantment of sugared angels spreading their sparkling wings in bakery windows, and bells whose limpid sounds rose like the sea at a moonlit tide, and glass ornaments turning slowly this way and that on dark tree branches, gathering in their reflections the whole wondrous, promise-filled world.

A dream house unfolding at some magical juncture of the past and the future, bypassing the dull, heartbroken, trivial present, born equally out of memory and promise . . .

I plan to approach my future as one of great promise.

The acorn contains the oak

I wait and wait, as though something is going to happen, as though someone has promised to come, as though the world could show me something new...

We're the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.

Tú no eres una promesa. Tú eres una amenaza

There's greatness in him. A magnitude of spirit.

talent. Potential. Great potential

teach, I teach, but no one learns. You, too, have great promise, like so many students before you

I'll carry you,' said Ender, 'I'll go from world to world until I find a time and a place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time they can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.

Still, she said nothing, because his words came from God, and hers from grief. To him, it was as if what the Lord had promised were already fulfilled; he thought of himself as a man with many children, and it didn't occur to him that she did not live in that world.

Jack: "Gwendolen, wait here for me." Gwendolen: "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.