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Quotes About Promise

Yes, life can be rich down here. But never forget, the richest life is still to come.
~ Phil Callaway
Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.
~ Dwight L. Moody
If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
To keep a vow, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering what the vow means, and to be willing to change and to grow accordingly.
~ Mike Mason
The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.
~ Patrick Dixon
The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.
~ Paulo Coelho
When I get married, it will be for life - divorce is not an option.
~ Kelly Rowland
God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.
~ Max Lucado
We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.
~ Freeman Thomas
Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
I realized that I hdd my promise to them - to everyone in my family - long ago. I had promised during the days that Grandma and I had hidden in the park; I had promised when I had not testified against Dad; I had promised when I had hidden the letter. I would never do anything to hurt my family and I would do everything I could to take care of them.
~ Ji-li Jiang
As soon as I said it, I realized that I had made my promise to them—to everyone in my family—long ago. I had promised during the days that Grandma and I had hidden in the park; I had promised when I had not testified against Dad; I had promised when I had hidden the letter. I would never do anything to hurt my family, and I would do everything I could to take care of them. My family was too precious to forget, and too rare to replace.
~ Ji-li Jiang
Once my life had been defined by my goals: to be a da-dui-zhang, to participate in the exhibition, to be a Red Guard. They seemed unimportant to me now. Now my life was defined by my responsibilities. I had promised to take care of my family, and I would renew that promise every day. I
~ Ji-li Jiang
We like to control the map of our life and know everything well in advance. But faith is content just knowing that God's promise cannot fail. This, in fact, is the excitement of walking with God.
~ Jim Cymbala
We see now why the great target of Satan is to break down our faith. He knows all too well that the righteous live by faith, so he aims at cutting our lifeline to God. Faith is like the hand that reaches up to receive what God has freely promised. If the devil can pull your hand back down to your side, then he has succeeded. All of God's intended supply will just stay where it is in heaven.
~ Jim Cymbala
When we talk to ourselves, we're not talking to anyone very smart, because our outlook is very limited. But if we talk to God, we're talking to someone who knows everything. He knows what he promised in the beginning, and he knows exactly how to fulfill those promises no matter the circumstances.
~ Jim Cymbala
I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
~ Jim Henson
For every promise, there is price to pay.
~ Jim Rohn
You" is emphatic. When the eye keeps steadfastly fastened on God's judgments upon a guilty world and upon His assured Promise of personal Salvation, then the heart is delivered from Earthly expectations and is, at the same time, prepared to suffer calamities in sympathy with national distress.)
~ Jimmy Swaggart
me. That's what husbands are for. And for holding onto for comfort. And to make sure that life will be better. That is my wedding vow to you
~ Jo Beverley
When I re-read, I know what I'm getting. It's like revisiting an old friend. An unread book holds wonderful unknown promise, but also threatens disappointment. A re-read is a known quantity.
~ Jo Walton
Crime, que sei, é fazer traição, ser ladrão de cavalos ou de gado... não cumprir a palavra..." — "Sempre eu cumpro a palavra dada!" — gritou de lá Zé Bebelo.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Wait a minute!" I shouted, "Magic is never one-sided!" Stieglitz barked in agreement. There was always a way to weasel out, everyone knew that. True, it was usually a weird way, like giving your firstborn child to a gnarled dwarf, but heroines under stress promise all kinds of things. Alice got out of Wonderland, didn't she? Sleeping Beauty woke up. I wouldn't give up without a fight!
~ Joan Bauer
Sonia Sotomayor] maintained tight bonds with her Hispanic community. On the May 25, 2009, evening that President Obama had called to offer her the nomination, he had asked her to promise him two things: 'The first,' she recalled, 'was to remain the person I was and the second was to stay connected to my community. I said to him that those were two easy promises to make, because those two things I could not change.
~ Joan Biskupic