Quotes About Promises

This bag is filled with nourishment for the mind and soul. What I have here, Tangy, are promises and hopes, as well as scattered disillusionments. It's like filling your plate with ham, green beans, and potato salad, only to have someone come along and spoon lumpy, dried-out oatmeal on the side. Wouldn't that spoil your appetite?

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Faith is lean and ready to starve unless it is fed with continual meditation on God's promises.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

Calvin was correct when he wrote, "It is quite certain that the primary promises, which contained that covenant ratified with the Israelites by God under the Old Testament, were spiritual and referred to eternal life.

the leadership industry also has its share of quacks and sham artists who sell promises and stories, some true, some not, but all of them inspirational and comfortable, with not much follow-up to see what really does work and what doesn't.

Faith is for the future. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great things in store for each of us and that Christ truly is the "High Priest of good things to come" (Hebrews 9:11).

In a world of tribulation--and there will always be plenty of it--let's remember our faith. Let's recall the other promises and prophecies that have been given, all the reassuring ones, and let's live life more fully, with more boldness and courage than at any other time in our history.

So join hands and be filled with faith and enjoy life to the fullest. Embrace the promises and possibilities of this stage of life and this moment in history. Don't worry about what lies ahead. Live your life and have faith. Faith begins with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that leads to faith in everything else: faith in the future and faith in our families and faith in our prospects and our promises and our possibilities.

Sera was beginning to see that love wasn't pretty words and easy promises. Love was hard. It challenged you and changed you. It filled your heart and sometimes hardened it too. Love demanded sacrifices. She'd made many over the last few weeks, and knew she would be called upon to make many more.

If there's one thing i know, it's that no one can promise anything.

Good words, I replied. But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself, and fling the curses on his neighbours.

He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man.

But pieces of paper do not stop bullets and rockets. Paper promises that fall from the sky cannot be trusted.

It is futile to judge the viability of a new movement by the truth of its doctrine and the feasibility of its promises. What has to be judged is its corporate organization for quick and total absorption of the frustrated. Where new creeds vie with each other for the allegiance of the populace, the one which comes with the most perfected collective framework wins.

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?

On les écouta, on compatit, on s'indigna, on promit, mais on ne bougea pas une lance

Il s'en dégage un bonheur espiègle qu'on associe rarement aux ancêtres disparus. Ils recevaient de la vie moins que nous n'en recevons, mais ils en attendaient beaucoup moins aussi, et ils cherchaient moins que nous à régenter l'avenir. Nous sommes les générations arrogantes qui sont persuadées qu'un bonheur durable leur a été promis à la naissance - promis ? mais par qui donc ? »