Quotes About Promises

Legacy goes hand-in-hand with actions and achievements. Promises and mere words are beyond our sphere, they are useless in this case.

There are only two options in life: Either you refrain yourself from making promises or from breaking them after you have failed the first test.

We end up making false promises to others by trying to impress them too much.

He will give justice to His chosen ones, those who have received His promises as a spiritual inheritance.

The death of Jesus of Nazareth as the king of the Jews, the bearer of Israel's destiny, the fulfillment of God's promises to his people of old, is either the most stupid, senseless waste and misunderstanding the world has ever seen, or it is the fulcrum around which world history turns. Christianity is based on the belief that it was and is the latter.

Ultimately, the so-called 'gnostic gospels' would be a denial of what Jesus and the church believed about God himself and what the canonical gospels are inviting the rest of the world, ourselves included, to believe about God. The canonical gospels are saying, in form and overall substance, that the word 'God' properly belongs to the creator God, the God of Israel, the God who has kept his promises to creation and to Israel and has done so in this way.

These assumptions will not let us down. The covenant is indeed the context; the restoration of true worship is indeed the goal. The passage is indeed about God's dealing with sin. But the way God does this is, first, by fulfilling his ancient covenant promises and, second, by thereby addressing idolatry, the underlying problem of all human faithlessness. In other words, God is unveiling his "righteousness" through the faithfulness to death of Israel's Messiah, Jesus.

So it has proved in the long term, as the de-Judaized story had to find another narrative framework and eventually came up with the "works contract," in which the history of Israel was merely an example of people getting things wrong, even though it also contained a few detached promises pointing into the long-distant future.

Hope" in this sense is not a feeling. It is a virtue. You have to practice it, like a difficult piece on the violin or a tricky shot at tennis. You practice the virtue of hope through worship and prayer, through invoking the One God, through reading and reimagining the scriptural story, and through consciously holding the unknown future within the unshakable divine promises. Saul had learned to do this. Paul the Apostle, much later, would have to learn the same lesson all over again.

The death of Jesus launched the revolution; it got rid of the roadblock between the divine promises and the nations for whom they were intended. And it opened the way for the Spirit to be poured out to equip God's people for their tasks.

It would mean that the One God was acting at last to fulfill his ancient promises, and the mode of that action would be to set up a new regime, a new authoritative rule.

The resurrection isn't just a surprise happy ending for one person; it is instead the turning point for everything else. It is the point at which all the old promises come true at last: the promises of David's unshakable kingdom; the promises of Israel's return from the greatest exile of them all; and behind that again, quite explicit in Matthew, Luke, and John, the promise that all the nations will now be blessed through the seed of Abraham.

His assurance was enough for her to hold on to the shreds of her sanity . . . because Kaleb never broke his promises. "Sahara! I'll come for you! Survive! Survive for me!

The promises of God provide a powerful antidote to all our fears and free us to step out in faith and surrender.

He would only shrug and look at me expectantly again, waiting for high magic: magic that came only when you made some larger version of yourself with words and promises, and then stepped inside and somehow grew to fill it.

The lies we believe become idols when we believe the false promises behind them.

A veces hacemos promesas innecesarias a Dios y luego pensamos que nuestra promesa es la base de nuestro perdón. Pero Dios nos pide que renunciemos a nuestro derecho de demostrar que somos dignos del amor que nos da. Este engaño nos pone en una situación de mucha vulnerabilidad.

The true well-being of the church: when she cannot count on anything anymore but God's promises. -Johannes Hoekendijk

I don't drink anymore myself, I'm moving on. And that's not to say I won't drink again. I'm not making any promises, but I don't think I was a great drinker. Some folks are great drinkers; they drink and tell jokes and laugh their asses off, and they are funny as hell. We buried one of those last week. Life is just a big test, and if you try hard, you fail. If you don't try too hard and fail a little but have a good time, maybe that is success.

services-dominant logic that argues the brand is co-created with consumers and the concept of the experience economy have shifted branding away from communications to personal interaction; from making promises to keeping them; from something run by the marketing department to an organization-wide operating principle.

The victorious Conservative/Liberal coalition government honoured its promises and proposed making it far harder for libel tourists to use the London courts to punish their critics.

Promises were useless in the face of torture.

The failure of progress has not consisted in the non-fulfillment but in the fulfillment of its promises.

The disaster of democracy only becomes apparent when its promises have been fully fulfilled.