Promise Quotes - Page 37

• God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.

  Ellen G. White

  Humble, Obedience, Conditions

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• As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

  David Wilkerson

  Crush, Pain, Godly

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• Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

  George Will

  Democracy, Voters, Politician

  "A battle won, but a victory?" by George F. Will, www.washingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Running, Technology, Reality

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• Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives. The pattern is repeated in the sacramental prayer: We promise that we will always remember the Savior. We promise to take His name upon us. We promise to keep His commandments.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Prayer, Father, Simple

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• Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Bullying, Boss, Safe

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• Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Voice, Twists

  J.R.R. Tolkien (1973). “The Lord of the Rings part two the Two Towers”

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• Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Mother

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• Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Romantic, Judging

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

  Michael Cunningham

  Perfect, Perfection, Stills

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.98, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

  Stendhal

  "De L'Amour" (On Love) by Stendhal, (Ch. 17, footnote), 1822.

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• The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  New York, Bridges, Cities

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.517, e-artnow

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• And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Girl, Falling In Love, Boys

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

  Dan Savage

  Revolutionary, Founding, Pursue

  Dan Savage (2003). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah”, p.8, Penguin

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• Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hands, Variation, Tongue

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• That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

  Joan Didion

  Mistake, Procrastination, Years

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 16, 2011

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• Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Dream, Fall, Cutting

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• Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that even the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers - the outcasts - had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope.

  John Green

  Jesus, Suffering, Finals

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• Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

  Jack Kerouac

  Prison

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.217, Penguin

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• Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Rotten, Way

  Sonnet 34

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• The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us when they do.

  Janette Oke

  Love Is, Truth Of God, Happens

  Love Comes Softly, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Moon, Night, Air

  Sherwood Anderson (1995). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• We are closest to Christ when sharing the world’s misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond. We can overcome our travails. That is the promise of the cross.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Jesus, Pain, Thinking

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• But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place reclaimed by the weather where a woman plays an organ to stop the wind's whining and an old man plays ball with a dog named Duke. I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay.

  Joan Didion

  Dog, Men, Vanity

  Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

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• Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Treasure, Knowledge Of God, Power Of Love

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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