Promise Quotes - Page 22

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.

Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

The real source of market promise is not the wealthy few in the developing world, or even the3 emerging middle-income consumers. It is the billions of aspiring poor who are joining the market economy for the first time.

Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

When anyone gives a promise, then such should be kept, and so under any circumstance.

Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Sanity is a compromise.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.

We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.

On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.

Christianity doesn't offer a smooth flight; it provides a safe landing. The promise of Jesus is not one of happiness, He promises righteousness.

The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

A broken promise is not a lie.

It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.

By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.

The peace and safety for which you yearn is not a matter of food, clothing, and shelter. It is a matter of love. Love and be loved, and all else will be added unto you. The world will perform its magic when you step into yours. That is the promise of God, and it will be kept.