Promise Quotes - Page 39

• "Love me or hate me, I promise it won't make or break me."

  Lil Wayne

  Hater, Make Or Break, Love Me Or Hate Me

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• The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This prescription, unfortunately, has proven to be yet another in a long list of nouveau homilies that haven't lived up to their promises.

  John Rosemond

  Children, Self Esteem, Epidemics

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• One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be read in the open book of the garden, by those with an eye to see, and a mind to understand.

  Edward Augustus Bowles

  Spring, Flower, Book

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• Though a man may be found in a weak state, that does not at all mean that he has been abandoned by God. On the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ was in trouble, as the world sees things. But when the sinful world considered Him to be completely destroyed, in fact He was victorious over death and hades. The Lord did not promise us positions as victors as a reward for righteousness, but told us, "In the world you will have tribulation - but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world".

  John of Shanghai and San Francisco

  Jesus, Cheer, Mean

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• What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns the non-believers, all those who think differently, to an eternal torment in hell? - If that Church absolutely must talk about love, then it should do so very quietly.

  Arnulf Øverland

  Atheist, Thinking, Church

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• We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.

  PZ Myers

  Atheist, Lying, Successful

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• When it comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, League, Bullshit

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• Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized sacred Scripture. Witches are today being burned in South Africa.... The worldwide TM [Transcendental Meditation] organization has an estimated valuation of $3 billion. For a fee, they promise to make you invisible, to enable you to fly.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, War, Numbers

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• Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

  Leland Stanford

  Thoughtful, Intelligent, Determined

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• Always leave people with a solution; the heaven if you do versus the hell if you don't. If you're really skillful you can put the person into the future solution. Shoaff used to say, 'Jim, I can see you now in your new clothes, in your new home, in your new car. I can see others walking up to you.' The Promise of the Future is an Awesome Force!

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Home

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• There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Kissing, Romantic Love, Long

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1855). “Nature and Human Nature”, p.68, New York : Stringer and Townsend

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• The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Taken, Done

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• Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Add, Results

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

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• God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

  Matthew Henry

  Prayer

  Matthew Henry (1808). “An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments ...: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents : the Sacred Text Inserted at Large in Distinct Paragraphs : Largely Illustrated with Practical Remarks and Observations”, p.252

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• Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

  William Gurnall

  Prayer, Victory, Fields

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• God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

  Royal Gould Wilder, Delavan Leonard Pierson, Arthur Tappan Pierson, James Manning Sherwood (1898). “The Missionary Review of the World”

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• When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; so likewise when we sow our prayers, through Christ, in God's bosom, shall we not look for an answer and observe how we speed? It is a seed of atheism to pray and not to look how we speed. But a sincere Christian will pray and wait, and strengthen his heart with promises out of the Word, and never leave praying and looking up till God gives him a gracious answer.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Prayer, Fall

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• Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

  William Gurnall

  Prayer, Argument

  William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.135

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• The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.

  Volker Grassmuck

  Technology, Buttons, World

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• I have not given it [synagogue] up. Christianity is the completion of the synagogue, for the synagogue was a promise, and Christianity is the fulfillment of that promise.

  Israel Zolli

  Jesus, Christianity, Synagogue

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• All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Years, Justice

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• Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.

  Chief Joseph

  Home, Tired, Heart

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• ... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strong, Law, Justice

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.62, Best Books on

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• I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wisdom, Determination, Goal

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2016). “Do It Now!”, p.155, Jaico Publishing House

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