Quotes by Promise The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise. Brennan Manning decision reality promise [Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning) Brennan Manning giving promise jesus If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that. Brett Favre best-football nfl promise The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word. Brian Tracy keeping-your-word cost promise You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships. Brian Tracy quality commitment promise Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned; and I will go still further, and say that this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord had given, and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned. Brigham Young wife feelings promise Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of Christ can lift us up in beauty from our ashes on the wings of a sure promise of immortality and eternal life. He will thus lift us up, not only at the end of life, but in each day of our lives. Bruce C. Hafen disappointment wings promise With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from. Bruce Greenwood environment drama promise Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves. Bryant H. McGill self wings promise You want to know who owns America? A few at the top. And they've got one thing on their mind. No change. Look at Obama, all that hope and promise. No change. He went to Wall Street, had a fundraiser—$35,800 a ticket—and you know who the host was? Goldman friggin' Sachs. Buddy Roemer wall america promise Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential. Buzz Aldrin climate giving promise The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter. C. I. Scofield faithful church promise The real source of market promise is not the wealthy few in the developing world, or even the3 emerging middle-income consumers. It is the billions of aspiring poor who are joining the market economy for the first time. C. K. Prahalad income real promise When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word. C. P. Scott news excellence promise The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly. C. S. Lewis mirrors perfection promise The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. C. S. Lewis beloved long promise We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust. C. S. Lewis delight long promise The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry. C. S. Lewis feelings long promise I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40) C. S. Lewis atmosphere land promise 'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. C. S. Lewis being-in-love inspirational promise «56789101112131415»
