Top 1200 God Promises Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

The Bible portrays God as entering into covenants with people which, when broken, causes him grief and sorrow. The biblical prophet Hosea and God's using him as an illustration of how much Israel's idolatry costs God emotionally points to God's vulnerability. But also the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ who, even as God the Son, suffered for our sins, points to God's vulnerability.

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.

If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree

We do have promises to keep. And my dad and Barack Obama are keeping them.

Once elected, the President 'forgets' all about his promises.

One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.

Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

Does God have a reason for wanting us to be charitable, to take care of those who can't take care of themselves? Either God does or God doesn't, it's just logic. If God has a reason then there is a reason independent of God and whatever God's reason is we should figure it out for ourselves. There is a reason and God doesn't really ground morality at all. God wants us to give charity because it's the right thing to do.

One of the promises I made when I ran was, I'll never vote with my reelection in mind.

The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.

I quickly came to realize that in the Middle East, God is God, and in the West, the sponsor is God - or, as I like to say, Tide detergent is God.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

I believe that politicians should implement the promises that they've given in manifestos.

Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

Integrity is doing what you said you would do. It means you keep your promises.

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.

I will prove that the world is wrong, by showing what God is...God himself was once as we are now and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret...I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see

We in general life make promises but we never stick to them.

It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

All those countries who keep their aid promises should be proud of what they've done

Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses - the louses.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Our God is Greater, Our God is Stronger, God, you are Higher than any other, Our God is Healer, Awesome in Power, Our God,Our God.

The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Salvation is universal because the love of God encompasses all. If God is God and if God is love, nothing is outside the love of God. A place like hell is thus inconceivable.

Somewhere, sometime, somehow you got tangled up in garbage, and you've been avoiding God. You've allowed a veil of guilt to come between you and your Father. You wonder if you could ever feel close to God again. The message of the torn flesh is you can. God welcomes you. God is not avoiding you. God is not resisting you. The curtain is down, the door is open, and God invites you in

...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed.

Don't hit other people, don't take their stuff and keep your promises.

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.

The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.

If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.

Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.

I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

God is not a person; God is manifestation itself. We think that God is a superhuman person, but God is not a person. He is not a subject. We can never experience God in a subject/object experience. God is what makes a subject/object experience possible. We can never see God or experience God as separate from ourselves. God is a being but there is no division.

Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.

Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.

He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.