Quotes About Promises

Los comunistas no se sienten obligados a mantener las promesas que hacen a sus enemigos. A guisa de medios para conseguir sus fines, no vacilan en emplear todas las artimañas y astucias que pueden servirles —y esto incluye las amenazas y las promesas

Señor, ¿cuáles son los acuerdos que he hecho en cuanto a mi matrimonio?» «¿Cuáles son los acuerdos que he hecho en cuanto al amor?» «¿Cuáles son los acuerdos que he hecho en cuanto a mi cónyuge?»

Here's what I've learned about soon; it's short for someday. We make space in our lives for what matters, now. Not in promises and soons, but on mantels with sterling frames, in shelves we clear to make room for our now. Everything else i talk.

Mr. Harrigan also promised this, but I suppose men who understand business also understand that promises are easy to discard, being as how giving them is free.

Sometimes while waiting for God's promises to come to pass, we messed up things and go into so many troubles, but God's mercy has never failed in bringing us out of them all.

Expect much more from God.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

She doesn't know what to say. She feels quietly furious with him, while conscious that she has no right to be. What has he ever promised her, after all?

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Here, the focus is not on the irrevocable covenantal promises so prominent in Genesis but rather on the proven record of fidelity and integrity that rabbinic thought attributes to those national ancestors. Presented with God's offer, Israel protests her unworthiness—people do not, after all, deserve to have a specific person love them to the point of proposing marriage—

I remembered the promises we'd made to each other, me and Sarah and Simon, and I wondered if I'd been naive to think we could keep them.

God must be trusted out of sight, i.e., when we cannot see which way it is possible for him to fulfil his word; everything but God's mere word makes it look unlikely, so that if persons believe, they must hope against hope. Thus the ancient Patriarchs, and Job, and the Psalmist, and Jeremiah, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego, and the Apostle Paul, gave glory to God by trusting in God in darkness

In Luke it is, chap. xi. 13, "How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" This is the sum of the blessings that Christ died to procure, and that are the subject of gospel promises: Gal. iii. 13, 14, "He was made a curse for us, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Others declare good intentions

Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break every last one of them? All except for one, I suppose: the promise to judge ourselves by those standards, the promise to remember the child who would be so appalled by compromise, the child who would find jadedness wicked.

Recall that even the liberal-minded John Locke in the seventeenth century argued against granting civil rights to atheists: 'Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of a God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold on an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.'6 This is not to endorse these sentiments, merely to note that they exist.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

the New Testament authors, building especially on the Isaianic vision, define the "gospel" as Jesus's effecting the long-awaited return of God himself as King, in the power of the Spirit bringing his people back from exile and into the true promised land of a new creation, forgiving their sins,[42] and fulfilling all the promises of God and the hopes of his people.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

That's the thing with promises, princess. They're only as good as the person who makes them. You of all people should understand that.

She could begin a new life, away from all these lies and broken promises.

Some words are wind. Some words are treason.

The president has substantial unilateral authority in trade, so political opposition may not prevent him from carrying through on some of his promises.

I was as reassuring as I could be, but I was not in a position to offer guarantees, implicit or otherwise.

In the absence of a decision by the FOMC, I could not make definitive promises. But just by discussing the possibilities at length I would send a signal that we were prepared to act.