Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses the louses.
The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.
Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine class. All right, are we gods? We are a class of gods!
. . . there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.
Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
Am I keeping my promises?
When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.
To take advantage of the last precious minutes, you've got to stay afield as late as the birds do, regardless of a houseful of guests, the sanguine promises you've made the missus, or the overdraft bank notice at home. To heck with everybody and everything when birds are feeding and fish are biting. Stay late and lie like a dog if necessary.
Two things will get you to leap out of yourselves into the promises of God today. One is purity, and the other is FAITH, which is kindled more and more BY PURITY.
No circumstance, person, or difficulty can stop the plans and the promises of God.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.
If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.
If you stare into a flame You'll get an eye full of energy If you write your nightscapades You'll get a dawn full of promises