Quotes About Promise

Alfred promised me that he would do just that—work for four weeks and on the fifth take a complete rest. That's the only way to arrange it because a man who's deeply involved can't shorten his work day very easily but he can organize a complete break. Unhappily, Alfred didn't do this. That's why he died.

And Mike's promised to come.' Doreen

We're going to lure whoever was on the stairs into the library." "Oh, c'mon, Jeff," she said, pulling away. "We lure him into the library? How do we do that? Promise to read to him?

Each morning, when you awaken, promise the dawn that you'll keep your heart as light as a feather. Commit again each night at sunset.

Tutum te robore reddam, which means I shall render you safe by my strength and she means every word of it.

I promise, I will never shoot you by accident.

She wanted commitment? He's tattoo her fucking name on his forehead if he had to.

I'm with you, Em. Don't doubt that, okay? No matter what happens or what you hear…Promise?

I promise," she said softly, biting her lip. "I will never shoot you by accident." I considered her response. "That's less comforting than you'd think.

I never promised you a rose garden.  I never promised you perfect justice…and I never promised you peace or happiness... I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie…

I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice [...] and I never promised you peace or happiness. My help is so that you can be free to fight for all of those things. The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose garden world of perfection is a lie... and a bore, too!

Love can't be taken back once it's given

But you'll be back. I know you will. You won't be able to let us go now.

Be my wife, all my life.

Did you tell her it was just until all was safe, or did you promise her forever?" Victoria shook her head. "Sounds to me like you've got some proposing to do before you're really a married man. Maybe a few days alone will loosen your tongue and make that knee of your bend easier.

Bailee had watched them come in and out of the sheriff's office the week she'd been in jail. She, Sarah, and Lacy had sworn daily that if any one of the three won the lottery to become a husband, the other two women would help their friend become a widow as fast as possible.

If I cannot have you in this life then I will wait for your next, and I will find you again, this I vow.

Still, it was better to swear an oath and never follow through than not even to bother with the oath. Wasn't it?

The beauty o' making yourself a promise is that no one else complains if you break it.

My soul is in your hands." "Your soul is safe in my hands and in my heart.

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11 NIV

When we are at our weakest, God is at his best, ready to step in and say to us as he said to Hagar, "Do not be afraid" (Genesis 21:17).

Whether you are living in a wilderness of poverty or loneliness or sorrow, God's promises, love, and protection are just as available to you now as they were to Hagar.

Jesus, in the story of creation, already planning the new creation; Jesus supreme above the ruins of the fall; Jesus in the ark, the rainbow and the dove; Jesus in the sacrifice on Mount Moriah, the ladder of Jacob, and the story of Joseph; Jesus in the Paschal lamb, the desert manna…. The face of Jesus can be traced like water lines in fine paper back of every page, for He is the Alpha and the Omega: the first and the last of this Holy Book.