Promised Land Quotes - Page 3

• Having settled down in the promised land of money and adventure - returning to a land of your parents last days can be a big dilemma to many. Isn't your greatest wealth your parents, and the best adventure - to see them happy before they go.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Adventure, Greatest Wealth, Land

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?

  Francois Fenelon

  Trust, Hands, Land

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Sleep, Divorce

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

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• Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch, cross a great sea, and establish a new nation, so, too, the children of Great Britain were led by God to leave the land of their religious oppression, cross a great ocean, inhabit a promised land, and, eventually, resist a "tyrannical" George III and create a new nation in "God's American Israel."

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Religious, Children, Ocean

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood relative has ever heard of it. Which is to say expectations aren't worth much in the book world.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Mother, Book, Land

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• I have faith in the future of this promised land of America and in its institutions of representative government, but more than that, I have faith in you, the youth of America, to build even more securely on the foundations laid by the faith and devotion of your pioneer fathers.

  Harold B. Lee

  Father, Government, Land

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• What is fascinating about a place like Los Angeles airport is that it is lots and lots of people, many of whom have saved up all their lives and channeled all of their energies toward coming to the promised land of abundance and plenty - the American Dream. But as soon as they arrive here they get a crash course in the American reality.

  Pico Iyer

  Dream, Reality, Airports

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

  Charley Pride

  Land, Work Out, Perfect

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• I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.

  Anne Waldman

  Country, Real, Land

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Never compromise a dream. Do what you must. The fears, beasts, and mountains before you are part of the plan. Stepping stones to a promised land. To a time and place that is so much closer than even you expect. So don't let your eyes deceive you, for even as you read these words, your ship swiftly approaches.

  Mike Dooley

  Inspirational, Dream, Fear

  Mike Dooley (2007). “Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Believe, Land, People

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• That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a versification of that personal history. History is all I have.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Land, Stories, Towns

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which they fully expected their offspring to fulfill. So the words 'all men are created equal' took a life of its own, ultimately destined to end slavery and enfranchise women. And the words 'equal protection' and 'due process' inevitably led to the end of the words 'separate but equal,' ensuring that the walls of segregation would crumble, whether at the lunch counter or at the voting booth.

  Joe Biden

  Children, Wall, Men

  Joe Biden (2007). “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics”, p.192, Random House

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• Do not be afraid! Our Father is patient, he loves us, he gives us Jesus to guide us on the way which leads to the promised land. Jesus is the light who brightens the darkness. He is our peace.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Father, Light

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• The mountain is high, the valley is low, and you're confused on which way to go. So I've come here to give you a hand, and lead you into the promised land. So, come on and take a free ride, come on and sit here by my side, come on and take a free ride!

  Edgar Winter

  Travel, Confused, Hands

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• Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Land, Apples, Way

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• Hebrews 3:19 tells us why the children of Israel did not enter into the promised land. Their problem was the same thing that keeps children of God today from enjoying the full benefits of their salvation: UNBELIEF I point this out not to condemn; rather, my desire is to see the children of God fully possess all of their benefits in Christ.

  Brian Williams

  Children, Israel, Land

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• God's intention is to transform your life, your promised land, and your nation, and to use you to bring back the earth to Himself, just as He is doing with us in Ukraine

  Sunday Adelaja

  Ukraine, Land, Use

  Sunday Adelaja (2008). “Church Shift”, p.27, Charisma Media

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• A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Spring, Night

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• Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Responsibility, Land, Modern

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger (2009). “How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Disappointment, Ignorance, Simple

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.30, Oxford University Press

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• To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.

  Bob Seger

  Inspirational, Light, Hands

  Song: Rite Of Passage

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• Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.

  John Mellencamp

  Religious, Grandma, Hands

  Song: Rain on the Scarecrow

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• Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.

  Jimmy Dean

  Crush, Queens, Revenge

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• I have a dream:
  One day we will get to the promised land.
  Then the president will be me,
  The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it!
  All wackness is now banned.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Dream, Rap, Government

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