Quotes about Promise
The best is yet to come.
— Frank Sinatra
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We are all subject to forgetfulness of God's faithfulness in the past, laziness to act on the divine promise, and postponing until tomorrow what Jesus is asking of us today: childlike abandonment in trust.
— Brennan Manning
Christians are a people of hope to the extent that others can find in us a source of strength and joy. If not, our profession of faith 'by the power of the Holy Spirit He was born of the Virgin Mary and became man' is as academic, tentative, and hopeless as the alcoholic who promises, 'I'll quit tomorrow.
— Brennan Manning
Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently from the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.
— Henri Nouwen
A good host is the one who believes that his guest is carrying a promise he wants to reveal to anyone who shows genuine interest.
— Henri Nouwen
There are two realities to which you must cling. First, God has promised that you will receive the love you have been searching for. And second, God is faithful to that promise. So stop wandering around. Instead, come home and trust that God will bring you what you need. Your whole life you have been running about, seeking the love you desire. Now it is time to end that search. Trust that God will give you that all-fulfilling love and will give it in a human way.
— Henri Nouwen
Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.
— Henry B. Eyring
We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.
— Henry B. Eyring
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 28:2
— Henry Blackaby
The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways." Deuteronomy 28:7
— Henry Blackaby
The key difference between what appears to be impossible to us and what is actually possible is a word from our Master!
— Henry Blackaby