Quotes about Promise
The power to make and keep commitments to ourselves is the essence of developing the basic habits of effectiveness.
— Stephen Covey
I just can't seem to keep a promise I make to myself.
— Stephen Covey
Integrity is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves. It's our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves, to "walk our talk
— Stephen Covey
You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
— Timothy Keller
Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.
— Mother Teresa
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.
— CS Lewis
Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love.
— Max Lucado
When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee—God can't break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable.
— Eugene Peterson
That's the fullness of God's salvation. It's not only deliverance from something but also deliverance to something. He not only delivers us from sin, but he also delivers us into a land of salvation that's flowing with milk and honey.
— Eugene Peterson
The promise of the psalm—and both Hebrews and Christians have always read it this way—is not that we shall never stub our toes but that no injury, no illness, no accident, no distress will have evil power over us, that is, will be able to separate us from God's purposes in us.
— Eugene Peterson
The central reality for Christians is the personal, unalterable, persevering commitment God makes to us. Perseverance is not the result of our determination, it is the result of God's faithfulness.
— Eugene Peterson
The Lord said unto me, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
— Eusebius of Caesarea