Quotes About Promises

There is nothing God loves more than keeping promises, answering prayers, performing miracles, and fulfilling dreams. That is who He is. That is what He does. And the bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory.

Making excuses for chronic promise-breakers is invariably self-defeating.

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

When somebody says, "The last thing I want to do is hurt you," it means they've got other things to do first.

A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game.

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.

You should never ask God to do what He has said He's already done, and you should never ask God to do what He has told you to do.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- ''I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.''

Men's vows are women's traitors!

We are called by God to live by faith and in spirit, to long and desire for His promises. It's not yet seen but will surely happen and will last for eternity.

My love for you shouldn't be about the wonderful promises I made everyday, but the wonderful things I'm doing for you everyday.

The best proof of love is trust and the best way to gain trust is to honor your promises.

Love never fails. It is the people who fail. They fail to keep promises. They fail to tell truth. They fail to trust each other.

I've showed you how I feel about you. All my feelings were true. All those promises I made, I'm keeping them. Now it's up to you. No matter what you decide to do, I'll always be here for you.

No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue.

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

Being a human means accepting promises from other people and trusting that other people will be good to you. When that is too much to bear, it is always possible to retreat into the thought, "I'll live for my own comfort, for my own revenge, for my own anger, and I just won't be a member of society anymore." That really means, "I won't be a human being anymore.

Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.

the whole Scripture of God is divided into two parts: precepts and promises. The precepts certainly teach us what is good, but what they teach is not forthwith done. For they show us what we ought to do, but do not give us the power to do it. They were ordained, however, for the purpose of showing man to himself, that through them he may learn his own impotence for good and may despair of his own strength. For this reason they are called the Old Testament, and are so.

Meanwhile it is to be noted that the whole Scripture of God is divided into two parts: precepts and promises.