Quotes about Promise

As our sin is ever before us, so God's promise must be ever before us. As we much feel our sting, so we must look up to Christ, our "brazen serpent" (Num 21:8-9).

What a vast difference is there between the first covenant and the second! In the first covenant it was, if you commit sin you die; in the second it is, if you confess sin you shall have mercy.

The godly understand the mystery of living by faith: "The just shall live by faith" (Heb. 10:38). They can trust God's heart where they cannot trace his hand. They can get comfort out of a promise, as Moses got water out of the rock (Exod. 17:6).

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you . . . I will be your God" (Ezek. 36:26,28).

The acorn contains the oak

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

When you make a promise consistent with what is right, you can keep your word. When you show respect consistent with good taste, you keep shame and disgrace at a distance. When he in whom you confide is one who does not fail his friends, you may trust him fully.

I will do what I promised. He whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.

Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep.

I will do what I promised, he whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.

How beautiful, how grand and perfect death was, how good to look forward to. There one would wash off all the lies and ignominy and dirt that had been put upon one here, a perfect bath of cleanness and glad refreshment, and go unknown, unquestioned, unabased. After all, one was rich, if only in the promise of perfect death. It was a gladness above all, that this remained to look forward to, the pure inhuman otherness of death.

I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.