Quotes about Promise

For a little reward men make a long journey; for eternal life many will scarce lift a foot once from the ground. Mean reward is sought after; for a single piece of money sometimes there is shameful striving; for a thing which is vain and for a trifling promise, men shrink not from toiling day and night.

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

She kisses his lips; he kisses hers; they solemnly bless each other. The spare hand does not tremble

Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more.

You didn't take your wife p. 59for fast and for loose; but for better for worse.

if vision is restricted to a belief system, or if it is divorced from all belief systems, it ceases to be vision. What is necessary is that it not restrict itself to a belief system but that belief systems always fall within the scope of poetic horizons... Visionaries (what we shall refer to as poets) do not destroy the walls, but show the openings through them. They do not promise what believers will see, only that the walls do not contain the horizon.

When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest.

When the storm runs out of breath, a rainbow is born.

An acorn is an oak tree inside out.

The tree of the promise will not drop its fruit unless shaken by the hand of prayer.

As our sin is ever before us, so God's promise must be ever before us. As we much feel our sting, so we must look up to Christ, our "brazen serpent" (Num 21:8-9).

What a vast difference is there between the first covenant and the second! In the first covenant it was, if you commit sin you die; in the second it is, if you confess sin you shall have mercy.