Quotes About Promises

I feel that it is good to commit my Soul, my Body, and my all into the Hands of God, Then the World appears little, the Promises great; and God an allsufficient Portion.

The news which the gospel hath in its mouth to tell us poor sinners is good. It speaks promises, and they are significations of some good intended by God for poor sinners.

Thou knowest not but, as Isaac met his bride when he went into the fields to meditate, so thou mayest meet thy beloved while walking by thy meditations in this garden of the promises.

The evil day is not such a scareful thing to thee that art a Christian, as that thou shouldst start for it. Bring up thy heart close to it. Show thy soul what Christ hath done to take the sting out of it, what the sweet promises are that are given on purpose to overcome the fear of it, and what thy hopes are thou shalt get by it. These will satisfy and compose thy spirit; whereas the shunning the thoughts of it will but increase thy fear, and bring thee more into bondage to it.

Dum mala pungunt, bona promissa un guunt—while calamities smite with oppression, the gracious promises anoint with their blessings.

When the spirit is low through unbelief, every threatening from man makes sad impression. Let thy faith take but a deep draught of the promises, and thy courage will rise.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

M?lest?ba tevi pamet, neko nepaskaidrojot, un p?rdz?vojumi paliek tikai fotogr?fij?s. S?kum? dz?ve divat? š?ita tik daudzsološa, bet beig?s porcel?ns saš??st drumsl?s un lauskas griež l?dz asin?m... Un tur neko nevar dar?t, jo t?da ir b?goš? m?la.

One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serfdom or permanent slavery? It happens, we'd suggest, precisely when promises become impersonal, transferable – in a nutshell, bureaucratized.

The revolution begins by asking: what sort of promises do free men and women make to one another, and how, by making them, do we begin to make another world?

The English word "free," for instance, is derived from a German root meaning "friend," since to be free meant to be able to make friends, to keep promises, to live within a community of equals.

Reliability in this largely rational sense is the repeated experience of links between promises and action.

The future is a bright as the promises of God.

When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word.

And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.

If you are a child of God, know that every promise in the Bible is yours.

God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.

The promises of God are equal to current coin. Therefore, I must act on the promises as I would if I actually had the cash.

We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.

Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.

Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith.

God can be trusted. He keeps His promises. He doesn't make any mistakes.

The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.