Quotes About Promise

We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage."

God does not say that He will be our God if we do this or that thing. But He says that He will put enmity, that He will be our God, and that in Christ He will grant us all things. The covenant of grace can throughout the centuries remain the same because it depends entirely upon God and because God is the Immutable One and the Faithful One.

When God binds Himself to being our God, then at the same time He binds Himself to be the God of our seed. With His grace He follows the line of the generations. He executes election along the route and pathway of the covenant. As Father of all mercies He walks the path that He Himself, as Father of everything, has drawn.

Ik drink van de thee en denk aan mijn moeder. Hoe ze me op een keer vroeg om, als ik ooit een vrouw zou hebben, altijd lief te zijn voor die vrouw. Ze vroeg me om haar te beloven dat ik die vrouw nooit zou slaan, zelfs niet als na een tijd zou blijken dat die vrouw een kreng was. 'Ik beloof het,' zei ik tegen mijn moeder.

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

Wherever the means of grace are rightly administered, there God fulfills His promise that the Word will not return empty, there faith is created, there is the church, the congregation of saints, of justified sinners.

For I've come to think one is truly married only when one is more committed to one's vows than the person they refer to.

I've come to think one is truly married only when one is more committed to one's vows than the person they refer to.

The hunger angel looks at me from the sky and says: Ride back. I say: But then I'll die. If you die, I'll make everything orange, and it won't hurt, he says. And I ride back, and he keeps his word. As I die, the sky over every watchtower turns orange, and it doesn't hurt.

We'll stay close and never part. I'll always love you cross my heart.

That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.

You could not know, sir, what Katherine was asking.' That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.

That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.

One summer at the fag end of the nineties, I had to go out of London to talk to a literary society, of the sort that must have been old-fashioned when the previous century closed. When the day came, I wondered why I'd agreed to it; but yes is easier than no, and of course when you make a promise you think the time will never arrive: that there will be a nuclear holocaust, or something else diverting.

Vows to the living may be set aside, with their permission. But the dead do not negotiate.

England has enjoyed fifty years of peace. This is the Tudors' covenant; peace is what they offer.

She asked me once. I failed her. If she asked me again, I would fail her again.

Earth and fire and water and air We solemnly promise, we solemnly swear Not a word, not a hint, not a sound to declare Earth and fire and water and air!

If you come back I'll show you a secret," said Heinz.

God says: If you come to My House, I will come to yours.

For youth, the moon is a promise of all those tremendous things which await it, for older people a memento that the promise was never kept, a reminder of all that broke and went to pieces... And what is moonshine? Secondhand sunshine. Diluted, counterfeit.

Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

Once, there was a girl who found a sword in the woods. Once, there was a girl who made a bargain with the Folk. Once, there was a girl who'd been a knight in the service of a monster. Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself. Once, there was a girl… Hazel