Promises Quotes
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When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?
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There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing dream for safety.
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Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.
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Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.
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Don't hit other people, don't take their stuff and keep your promises.
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Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.
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The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.
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If you ask people to do things and they usually don't get around to them, stop asking yourself, "What's the matter with people these days?" Instead, ask yourself, "What's the matter with me? What am I doing or failing to do that causes people to give me empty promises?"
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In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.
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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
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We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
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As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
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Only faith can keep what hope promises.
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Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.
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I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.
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No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.
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When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.
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Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.
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Do you think Christianity could have lasted for nearly two thousand years on its promises unless the Lord could deliver on them?
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Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.
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Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.
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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
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The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.
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All the mighty interceding of the ages that has ever shaken the kingdom of darkness has been based upon the promises of God.
