Quotes About Promises

I didn't feel old enough to be anyone's wife, or that I knew enough or had lived enough, or understood the essential things. I didn't know how to say any of this to Jock, either. That I was afraid of the promises we'd made. That late at night as I lay beside him in bed I felt lonely and numb, as if some part of me had died.

Promises mean everything, but after they are broken, sorry means nothing.

It happens, however, that large sectors of the oppressed form an urban proletariat, especially in the more industrialized centers of the country. Although these sectors are occasionally restive, they lack revolutionary consciousness and consider themselves privileged. Manipulation, with its series of deceits and promises, usually finds fertile ground here.

God places tools of faith and objects of faith in our lives to encourage us to continue believing the promises.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

I doubt any system that won't reveal its purpose, that only offers promises of a better tomorrow.

For my part, I never talk to the child about time. We talk about other things -- though not about anything much -- and never about tomorrow. For me that is impossible. Tomorrow we could all be wiped out. You think back upon all the promises you did not manage to keep. Talk about time and you will always end up making promises. Then it is better to say nothing at all, no matter what.

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Los pactos son promesas, y el Dios verdadero se manifiesta, o se nombra, mediante su capacidad de cumplir sus promesas. Toda la cuestión del nombre de Dios, como opuesto a cualquier otra fuerza espiritual, es lo que prácticamente forja el guión de la Biblia. Dado que las promesas tienen que ver con el futuro, la Biblia es escatológica por obligación. De esta manera, la Biblia aborda el tiempo de un modo que nos permite vivir con esperanza, fe y amor en medio de la historia.

the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.

continue to Ziphron, and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your boundary on the north.

And your eastern border will run straight from Hazar-enan to Shepham,

to the south, all the land of the Canaanites, from Mearah of the Sidonians to Aphek, as far as the border of the Amorites;

the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.

This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Zebulun, including these cities and their villages.

Not one of all the LORDís good promises to the house of Israel had failed; everything was fulfilled.

“Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel according to all that He promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises He made through His servant Moses.

the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress.

This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ëWe will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.í Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!

I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon until no more room is found for them.

the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of Godís truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,

For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.