Promise Quotes - Page 12

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

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?

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.

My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favorite five letter word is never because it insists on contradicting the promise. My favorite four letter word is once because it says it happened then. My favorite three letter word is yes because I’m just now learning to say it to my heart. My favorite two letter word is if because it makes all things possible like this: If not always If not never Then once. Yes.

To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise.

I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will spend the rest of my life exploring what could happen through the life of one who is willing to cultivate the God-given appetite to see impossibilities bow to the name of Jesus.

All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty

Live for who and what you love and never compromise your beliefs for anything or anyone.

...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love.

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.

Love is a promise; love is a souvenir.

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

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be And so I put this on my life Nobody or nothing will ever come between us And I promise I'll give my life

The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us when they do.

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.