Quotes about Promise
We knew the promise had never been safety, or that bad things would not happen if we were good and virtuous. The promise is only that God is in it with us, no matter what it is.
— Madeleine L'Engle
No matter how low the sun sets, the time is coming when it will surely rise.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When you pray for a rainbow you pray for rain too.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Any seed that is planted by God bears fruit even before it touches the ground.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.
— Andrew Carnegie
The power to believe a promise depends entirely on our faith in the one who promises.
— Andrew Murray
When you get a promise from God, it is worth just as much as a fulfillment.
— Andrew Murray
Yet our Lord really meant it, for in the last night with His disciples He promised them that the power of the Spirit would enable them to live a life of obedience. Lord, I do love You and it is my greatest desire to obey Your commands. Please help me to do Your will.
— Andrew Murray
Step by step we shall get to see how truly this promise-precept
— Andrew Murray
The greatest defect of the Old Covenant was that it demanded obedience but did not provide the power for it. The new heart delights in the law of God; it is willing and able to obey it. A promise of God is a thing of faith. If you do not believe it, you cannot appropriate it or put it to use.
— Andrew Murray
When God has begun the work of absolute surrender in you, and when God has accepted your surrender, then God holds Himself bound to care for it and to keep it. Will you believe that?
— Andrew Murray
As my guarantee, He won it for me by His consent to have His petition unanswered.
— Andrew Murray