Top 1200 Promised Land Quotes & Sayings

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

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

Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow

In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.

Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!

Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

We've not reached the promised land. We're still wandering around, bumping into each other in the wilderness of ignorance and hate. That is why the King holiday is so important.

If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.

Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.

I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.

Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.

You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.

I believe that the overwhelming majority of Puerto Rico wants to be Puerto Ricans. I have been in five different states in the United States, and I have found young Puerto Ricans in the states who really love Puerto Rico, who really want to do something for Puerto Rico. And for me, Puerto Rico has to be the promised land of all Puerto Ricans, whether we are in the United States or wherever we are at. But this has to be the promised land. Annexation will never be the answer.

For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

One of those lies is that all we need to do is elect more Democrats. No. That actually isn't going to get us to the Promised Land.

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

You have asked me to lead this nation out of the present wilderness and malaise on to the promised land, and I shall do so; I shall offer a responsive, transparent, and innovative leadership.

To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch, cross a great sea, and establish a new nation, so, too, the children of Great Britain were led by God to leave the land of their religious oppression, cross a great ocean, inhabit a promised land, and, eventually, resist a "tyrannical" George III and create a new nation in "God's American Israel."

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.

Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.

It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

We must again carry the burden of our people and shoulder our commitment to leading them to the promised land.

Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.

As a child of the Commonwealth, I had been brought up to believe Great Britain was the promised land, a culture where the rule of law was observed and decency was embedded in the national fabric.

The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it.

We hear a lot about theological justifications for the conflicts, but very little about the scientific evidence, which in no way supports them. The time period in which Moses was leading his people out of Egypt, into the Promised Land, the Promised Land was Egypt. We know that. Archaeological records are very clear. The Egyptians were avid bureaucrats even in those days and kept very scrupulous records. I think it's important for us to realize this conflict is built on a legend. It has no scientific support.

In both the Holy Land of the New Testament and the promised land of the Book of Mormon, [our Savior] spent considerable time teaching and instructing and training His councils and council leaders, and then He sent them forth to share what they had learned with others.

Having settled down in the promised land of money and adventure - returning to a land of your parents last days can be a big dilemma to many. Isn't your greatest wealth your parents, and the best adventure - to see them happy before they go.

I promised to carry on Jeff Session's legacy of fighting for the conservative values we believe in. I promised to help pass the Trump agenda and serve the people's interest, not the special interests. And I promised to help Donald Trump drain the swamp in Washington.

I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business.

Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart, but do not expect to reach the promised land without going through some wilderness together.

While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.

Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.

New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... I thought.

And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it

Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.

Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land.

Don't wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you've got to worship along the way.