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Quotes About Promise

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
~ Claire Forlani
Because we knew you were waiting, we did our best so that we'd return.
~ CLAMP
I feel about my yarn stash as I do about my library: It is the record of much of my history, promise, potential, inspiration, learning, and space to dream.
~ Unknown
Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 518, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity.
~ Unknown
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
~ Unknown
Ah how much easier to to bear and understand pain than that promise of spring's frigid and liquid joy. And with such modesty she was awaiting it: the poignancy of goodness.
~ Clarice Lispector
Pues prescidir de la esperanza significa que tengo que pasar a vivir y no solo a prometerme la vida. Y este es el mayor miedo que puedo tener.
~ Clarice Lispector
Deus, o que nos prometeis em troca de morrer? Pois o céu e o inferno nós já os conhecemos - cada um de nós em segredo quase de sonho já viveu um pouco o próprio apocalipse. E a própria morte.
~ Clarice Lispector
Hope is a child not yet born, only promised, and that bruises.
~ Clarice Lispector
Macabéa, Hail Mary, full of grace, serene promised land, land of forgiveness, the time must come, ora pro nobis, and I use myself as a form of knowledge. I know you to the bone through an incantation that comes from me to you. To scatter oneself wildly and yet behind everything pulses an inflexible geometry.
~ Clarice Lispector
Ik had de moet niet om geen belofte meer te zijn en bleef mezelf beloven, als een volwassene die de moed niet heeft om in te zien dat hij volwassen is en doorgaat zichzelf rijpheid te beloven.
~ Clarice Lispector
Ik had de moed niet om geen belofte meer te zijn en bleef mezelf beloven, als een volwassene die de moed niet heeft om in te zien dat hij volwassen is en doorgaat zichzelf rijpheid te beloven.
~ Clarice Lispector
Macabéa, Hail Mary, full of grace, serene promised land, land of forgiveness, the time must come, ora pro nobis, and I use myself as a form of knowledge. I know you to the bone through an incantation that comes from me to you. To scatter oneself wildly and yet behind everything pulses an inflexible geometry. Macabéa remembered the docks. The docks went to the heart of her life.
~ Clarice Lispector
Missy could fall down and hurt herself, even if I'm walking right there beside her. That doesn't mean that I allowed it to happen. She knows, as far as unconditional love, I'll pick her up and I'll carry her. I'll try to heal her. I'll cry when she cries. And I'll rejoice when she is well. In all the moments of my life, God has been right there beside me. The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen. It's His promise that He'll be there with us when they do.
~ Unknown
I will warm the great outdoors for the whole of January if I can.
~ Unknown
A broken home is not a broken life. A broken promise is not a broken responsibility. But a broken time for everything is a broken future.
~ Unknown
Anything that glows in the dark can be a silhoutte of hope for mankind.
~ Unknown
Behind every mountain where the sun hides and comes out, a glimpse of hope flashes on everyone.
~ Unknown
Two childhood best friends made a promise, that they will check each other out every year. It happened. When they saw each other again, they did the same thing... in heaven.
~ Unknown
Two childhood best friends made a promise, that they will check each other every year. It happened. When they saw each other again in heaven, they did the same thing.
~ Unknown
God of Clotilda, if you grant me victory I shall become a Christian.
~ Unknown
I wore your promise on my finger for one year I'll wear your name on my heart til I die Because you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.
~ Coco J. Ginger
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
~ Herbert Croly
A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage
~ Herbert Hoover