Quotes about Promise

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

During the night we must wait for the light.

If we walk steadily and faithfully...God will lift us up to greater things.

Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

Jesus promised His disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble.

Thirdly, If the command of Christ to teach all nations extend only to the apostles, then, doubtless, the promise of the divine presence in this work must be so limited; but this is worded in such a manner as expressly precludes such an idea. Lo, I am with you always, to the end of the world.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.