Promise Quotes - Page 14

• View life as a learning opportunity. Ask God what He wants you to learn from the situations you face. . . . When we set aside specific time to listen, He often encourages us with His presence and promises, and interprets to some degree the circumstances of life. Take advantage of the natural lull after hard times when you're pulling together the pieces to sort through the events and ferret out the lessons.

  Jean Fleming

  God, Hard Times, Opportunity

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• What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?

  John Newton

  Humble, Men, Silence

  John Newton (1808). “The works of the rev. John Newton”, p.246

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• Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

  Mark Kennedy

  Focus, Dollars, Classroom

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• Whenever your heart starts to be anxious about the future, preach to your heart and say, 'Heart, who do you think you are to be afraid of the future and nullify the promise of God? No, heart, I will not exalt myself with anxiety. I will humble myself in peace and joy as I trust this precious and great promise of God - He cares for me.'

  John Piper

  Heart, Humble, Thinking

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• Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

  John Piper

  Looks, Crosses

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• One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.

  John Piper

  Enemy, Forget

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• We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

  Bobby Scott

  People, Progress, Spirit

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• Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

  David Bohm

  Communication, Feelings, World

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2004). “On Dialogue”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir is invisible except through the promises. But the ever-enlarging pool of past grace is visible; and God means for the certainty and beauty and depth to strengthen our faith in future grace.

  John Piper

  Mean, Past, Grace

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.100, Multnomah

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• Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.

  Michael Horton

  Christian, Purpose, Driven

  Michael Horton (2009). “The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World”, p.133, Baker Books

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• There buds the promise of celestial worth.

  Edward Young

  Bud, Celestial

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1803). “Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life”, p.410

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• Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.

  St. George Tucker

  Son, Men, Land

  "A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia". Book by St. George Tucker, 1796.

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• Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

  Richard Steele

  Health, Self, Support

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.186

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• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  Wade Davis

  Lonely, Children, Fate

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• Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.

  John Eldredge

  Christian, Heart, Views

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• And now, dear Lord, I acknowledge afresh that You are the God of all peace, my Jehovah-Shalom. My job is to receive. you give me Your peace. My job is to take it. You lead me to Your still waters. My role is to follow. You extend Your hand. My role is to take hold. My I enjoy Your presence and the tranquility of the still waters where You pour out your promise of peace. Amen.

  Elizabeth George

  Peace, Jobs, Dear Lord

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• Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.

  Jon Landau

  Perfection, Feelings, Risk

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• I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

  Andrew Thomas

  Powerful, Law, Community

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• It's your time for a breakthrough! Make up your mind to leave the past and the old you behind. Focus on giving birth to a new you....the real you. It is your time to create a turning point for the better in your life. It is your destiny to be healthy, happy and successful.Your future is open, full of possibility and promise! Buckle down and do whatever is required to create a life that you are proud of and a life that you deserve! Don't look back!! Look ahead, move forward and make this your best year ever! You have the something special. You have GREATNESS within you!

  Les Brown

  Real, Moving, Successful

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• Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

  John Locke

  Atheist, Atheism, Covenant

  John Locke, David Wootton (1993). “Locke: Political Writings”, p.426, Hackett Publishing

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• The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.

  Lord Byron

  Wall, Wine, Cities

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.

  David Fincher

  Silly, People, Special

  Interview with Mark Salisbury, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Second chances, miracles, angels, faith and religion all promise us a way of doing things better to smooth over the regrets and hope we make better decisions in the future. We all want to become better than who we are now, and we're all continuing to know ourselves better.

  Laura San Giacomo

  Regret, Angel, Second Chance

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.

  Emily Yoffe

  Guarantees That, Matter, Vow

  "Outnumbered" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. October 12, 2015.

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• Most people who try those bizarre trends are looking for magic bullets. There's usually a sexy promise attached to these trends - related to diet or fitness - that many people find too tempting to resist.

  Jillian Michaels

  Sexy, People, Magic

  "Jillian Michaels Talks Fitness Fads and What Makes an Exercise Phenomenon". Interview with Lily Butler, studioatgizmodo.kinja.com. October 12, 2015.

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