Quotes About Promises

Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.

Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.

For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don't matter as much as personal choice.

So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.

God is trustworthy—He always keeps His promises.

Trust is the residue of promises fulfilled.

Central Truth: Prayer is successful only when it is based on the promises in God's Word!

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

Perhaps the mere existence of things undone should be a sort of satisfaction in itself, though the idea would appear to be paradoxical. Only one who is long since dead while still seemingly alive does not have many "promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep," and that state of inertness is not to be desired. To the wise advice that we live every day as though it will be our last, we do well to add the admonition to live every day as though we will be on this earth forever.

To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results.

My present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States: it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gilded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own, their votes. And who benefits most? The lawyers. (Chapter 4)

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office.

People have long been willing to trade freedoms for economic prosperity, which is where a compelling link to the promises (though not generally delivered realities) of neoliberalism becomes visible.

I'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

Love the world With your heart's dreams. Serve the world With your life's promises.

Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.

No amount of promises can guarantee love

God uses every possible means to communicate with you. The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you. He wants to help you find your way home. Many