Top 1200 God Promises Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.

If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.

A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.

By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything marvelous.

Its important for people to know that I will make many promises to get their votes.

I will vote for the first candidate who promises to use nuclear missiles against LinkedIn.

We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don’t mean. We make promises we don’t keep.

The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an unspoken cosmic rule.

Our words must count. Hunger will not wait for promises we made.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

One knows their capacity to fulfill promises. It should be taken into account before promising the voters.

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

You cannot make promises because you never know what your next project will be.

ISIS is luring Americans with empty and false promises that do not reflect reality on the ground in Iraq.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

That experience showed me that I-from moment to moment-am the only person in control of my connection to God. It's not that God is deciding to connect with me, depending on whether I had a good day, or did good or bad deeds. It's all up to me. God, the awareness of God, the love of God, the blessings of God-that lively ecstasy-is always there. It's me who separates from God by judging, by indulging in negativity, by criticizing myself, as well as others.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

The people of Odisha know who fulfils promises and who does not. We believe in works and not in words.

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

As long as I hold tightly to something, I believe I own it. But when I give it away, I relinquish control, power, and prestige. When I realize that God has a claim not merely on the few dollars I might choose to throw in an offering plate, not simply on 10 percent or even 50 percent, but on 100 percent of "my" money, it's revolutionary. If I'm God's money manager, I'm not God. Money isn't God. God is God. So God, money, and I are each put in our rightful place.

God exist whether or not men may choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so much that it is intellectually impossible to believe in God, but because belief in God forces that thoughtful person to face the fact that he is accountable to such a God.

Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD

What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and is not and cannot be the object of any detached 'scientific' contemplation. Heidegger's critique of onto-theology is also driving a wedge between speaking of God and the aims of science - not so as to get rid of God but rather to free God from a false objectification.

We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.

I am for God, I am the lover of God, I am loved by God, I am the servant of God, I am the servant of the servant of God, and I am the well-wishing instrument of God's love towards every living being, with all humility. The emergence of that realization is the greatest attainment in life.

We could not become like God, so God became like us. God showed us how to heal instead of kill, how to mend instead of destroy, how to love instead of hate, how to live instead of long for more. When we nailed God to a tree, God forgave. And when we buried God in the ground. God got up.

I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.

I'm committed to fulfilling my promises to my people, including my pledge to engage in constructive interaction with the world.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

We have two options - to continue living in poverty and empty promises or build a Belarus that we deserve.

Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does.

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

Balasaheb Thackeray's teachings have been that defeat is better than false promises.

We have to trust the Lord God for so many things, and it is but one thing more to trust him in the issues of life and death, and to accept the fact that his plans and promises and purposes transcend the bounds of this world and of this life. With such faith the years are kind, and peace and reconciliation do come to those who have laid to rest their loved ones - who, even in death, are not far removed from us, and of whom our Father in heaven will be mindful until we meet again even as we are mindful of our own children.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.

Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.

The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood.

Donald Trump must be taken seriously. He is fulfilling his dangerous campaign promises.

By putting the gift of yearning for God into every human being's heart, God at the same time draws all people made in God's image to God's self and into their own true selves.

Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God that is not God himself?): geometry provided God with a model for the Creation and was implanted into man, together with God's own likeness - and not merely conveyed to his mind through the eyes.

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.