Quotes About Promises

C. S. Lewis writes: "If you consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Your Lord finds your desires not too strong, but too weak.

Bram v. United States, said that a statement must be free and voluntary, not extracted by any sorts of threats or violence or promises, however slight. A confession obtained from an accused who has been threatened cannot be admissible.

The wooing of those days was prompt and practical. There was no time for the gradual approaches of an idler and more conventional age. It is related of one Stout, one of the legendary Nimrods of Illinois, who was well and frequently married, that he had one unfailing formula of courtship. He always promised the ladies whose hearts he was besieging that they should live in the timber where they could pick up their own firewood.

Trust is needed also in transactions that take time to complete. People are reluctant to invest in the absence of some assurance that the others' promises will be kept. For these and other reasons, a modern market economy needs a platform sturdy enough to support highly complex dealings.

A workable platform has five elements: information flows smoothly; property rights are protected; people can be trusted to live up to their promises; side effects on third parties are curtailed; and competition is fostered.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.

From experience I can say that we can make our nation corruption free. Only promises won't help...Irade Nek Hone Chahiye.

It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.

Faith is the solid, unshakable confidence in God which is built upon assurance that He is faithful to His promises.

I testify that bad days come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly promises are always kept.

Two things will get you to leap out of yourselves into the promises of God today. One is purity, and the other is FAITH, which is kindled more and more BY PURITY.

Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands.

His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Grab onto God's promises with one hand and His faithfulness with the other, ripping apart the natural to reveal the supernatural unseen beneath.

People make promises that they have every intention of keeping at the time but when it comes to cashing in, suddenly the promise loses all value.

Behind every untrusting girl, is a boy who lied, cheated, broke his promises to her.

Behind every cautious woman is a man who lied, cheated and broke the promises he made her.

BE CAREFUL what you say to someone, because tomorrow isn't promised and you CAN'T TAKE THAT BACK.

I guess in the end people become the people that they promised they'd never be...

Her smiles are as fake as your promises.

Don't give me backhanded compliments. I can see right through them. Don't make empty promises that you know you won't keep. I've let this go on too long.

Sad thing is: When they say 'forever' they mean, until they find someone better.