Quotes About Promises

When we hear His promises, we think, That is in the future. But the Father has already seen the end and is reporting the reality to us—He has achieved all that He said He would do (Isa. 55:10–11). Time just has to catch up.

Put your faith, hope, and trust in God. Do not look at your circumstances. Commit yourself to doing what He requires of you. Cling to the promises in His Word. Then when desperation pulls at your heart, you can cry out to Him, knowing that He hears your every word and will answer and provide the encouragement you need to hold out in the face of adversity.

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Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.

Oaths are but words, and words but wind...

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.

Eggs and oaths are easily broken.

I beg your pardon, my lord; promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies.

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

But if baptism will not make our children Christians, then why should we administer the covenant sign and seal to them? The most important answer is that we baptize because God makes promises to believers and to their children. In baptism we honor God by marking out and acting on the promises that reflect his grace both in blessing parents who act in devotion to God and in blessing the child being devoted to him in covenantal faith.

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

Voici le gage de mon amour De nos fiançailles Ni le temps ni l'absence Ne nous feront oublier nos promesses Et un jour nous aurons une belle noce Des touffes de myrte A nos vêtements et dans vos cheveux Un beau sermon à l'église De longs discours après le banquet Et de la musique De la musique

The candidates' written programme should not be too categorical, since later on adversaries might bring it up against them; in their verbal programme, however, there cannot be too much exaggeration. The most important reforms may be fearlessly promised. At the moment they are made, these exaggerations produce a great effect, and they are not binding for the future.

To give to men that portion of hope and illusion without which they cannot live, such is the reason for the existence of gods, heroes, and poets. During fifty years science appeared to undertake this task. But science has been compromised in hearts hungering after the ideal, because it does not dare to be lavish enough of promises, because it cannot lie.

I don't trust the future. I know the here and now, but I don't know anything else. That's why I can't understand all those easy promises. A man can promise that he will never beat this woman, or that he will do his best to give her food and shelter. Those things are possible. But I don't understand how he can swear that he'll feel certain emotions for the rest of his life. How can he know?

No es casual que dos valores constantes del discurso populista sean, de un lado, la estimulación del resentimiento social, del otro, la promesa de reparación o revancha.

Liars make the best promises." But their promises are a lot like impressions. The second one don't count for much.

Your empty promises.... Are the moments I had to pretend that I was strong and unbreakable while my heart was aching inside.

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

When it comes to deciding whether a leader is believable, people first listen to the words, then they watch the actions. They listen to the talk, and then they watch the walk. They listen to the promises of resources to support change initiatives, and then they wait to see if the money and materials follow.

From Meade came promises to try, but also reports of supply difficulties, roads of bottomless mud, the exhaustion of his men, and a strong defensive perimeter at Williamsport established by Lee while his engineers worked feverishly to rebuild a pontoon bridge. Lincoln had heard it all before, and he must have sighed with exasperation.