Quotes about Promise

When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.

Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.

But you will say now, has faith a warrant to believe deliverance, that it shall be fully delivered? I dare not say so, but it may act upon it, to believe that God will make it good in his own way. Perhaps you have not done as much, and so because of that, this promise is not fulfilled to you.

holiness is not only expected; it is the promised birthright of every Christian. Paul's

God expects every Christian to live a holy life. But holiness is not only expected; it is the promised birthright of every Christian.

protected the moral purity of Sarah, who was to be the mother of the promised son of Abraham.

As Lamentations 3:33 states, "For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men."

The assurance here is that God will show compassion. It is not enough to say that He is compassionate, but He will show compassion.

Fish, he said softly, aloud, I'll stay with you until I am dead.

Oh, darling," she said. "You will be good to me, won't you?" What the hell, I thought. I stroked her hair and patted her shoulder. She was crying. "You will, won't you?" She looked up at me. "Because we're going to have a strange life.

I am not religious, he said. But I will say ten Our Fathers and ten Hail Marys that I should catch this fish, and I promise to make a pilgrimage to the Virgen de Cobre if I catch him. That is a promise.

This is what the LORD says: "When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.