Quotes about Promise

Eternal life is not something you get when you physically die; it is something you get the moment you are born again! "He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life" (1 John 5:12). Contrary to what Satan would like you to believe, he can't ever take away your eternal life because he can't take Jesus away from you, who promised never to leave you or forsake you (Hebrews 13:5).

God does not promise to make a bad thing good, nor has He assured us that He will keep us from bad things. He has promised us that in all things-even those that are terrible-good can come out of it for all those who love Him.

Love is the only future God offers.

Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it.

God's love entails a covenant commitment on the part of with us, and that covenant commitment means a promise to be with us and for us, and God's covenant is shaped toward our redemption.

God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.

A still more glorious dawn awaits.

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.