Promise Quotes - Page 23

A brand is a promise. A good brand is a promise kept.

Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

But have we Holy Ghost power — power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds, and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

There is a promise made in any bed

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

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

Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise.

If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future.

There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

Now I'm told this is life, and pain's just a simple compromise.

He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.

I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter.

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.

We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.

You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

Compromise is the door through which deception enters.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.