Promise Quotes
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Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the promise of a treatment that will work.
Ann Hood
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You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.
Joe Moore
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Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.
Martin Luther
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Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
Stanley Hauerwas
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For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.
Carl Sagan
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Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts to a promise that the nation will take certain actions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a certain date.
Charles C. Mann
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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin Luther
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Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.
Steve Erickson
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
Seneca the Younger
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Globalization not only has lost its promise but it is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in quickly to convince the disenchanted masses that, indeed, as the banner of World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims, “Another world is possible.”
Walden Bello
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Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and women should be treated equally, a promise for which many Americans have lost their lives.
John Yarmuth
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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Charles Dickens
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If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.
Charles Handy
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Here is the ghost
Of a summer that lived for us,
Ere is a promise
Of summer to be.
William Ernest Henley
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The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.
Brennan Manning
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The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.
C. S. Lewis
