Promised land Quotes

“For you to be successful in your promised land, you must study the land”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Annie Dillard

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

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Christopher Isherwood

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

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Cotton Mather

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

— Bob Seger

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

— C. S. Lewis

“We cain't keep lookin' back at out losses. We gotta keep marchin' down that road ahead to the Promised Land. We gotta…

— Casey Robbins

“There is no such place as the promised land, but it would be foolish to reject even an unpromised land as worthless…

— Mary Balogh

“He wonders if that's what makes the promised land holy: that you can see it but you can't quite reach it. The…

— James S.A. Corey

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and…

— Red Cloud

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

— Pope Paul VI

We've not reached the promised land. We're still wandering around, bumping into each other in the wilderness of ignorance and hate. That…

— Yolanda King

I work hard for the things that are in my hands. My fans are what I love for its my promised land.

— David Jesus Torres

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

— Jane Kirkpatrick

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he…

— Albert Camus

“Because there is a belief that once you begin to open books, you will become a better person. It is Pandora's box,…

— Don Borchert

In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false…

— Louis Kronenberger

Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and…

— Mark Feuerstein

Hebrews 3:19 tells us why the children of Israel did not enter into the promised land. Their problem was the same thing…

— Brian Williams

“There was also a deliberate exploitation of prejudiced mentalities among their listeners by revivalist preachers such as Billy Sunday. Above all, there…

— Charles River Editors

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no…

— Herbert Croly

Fifteen years ago, France was the promised land of cooking. So I looked at a map, found five restaurants and faxed them…

— Rene Redzepi

The fruits in the Promised Land are there but you will never taste them if you do not reach out for them.…

— Albert Kang

J. Budziszewski is perhaps the clearest and most eloquent natural lawyer writing today. When reading his works I often find myself amazed…

— Francis J. Beckwith

The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his…

— Eric Hoffer

California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the…

— Christopher Isherwood

“When you’re in love with two people, always choose the second. The fact that you are constantly thinking of the second person…

— Shannon L. Alder

“The first thing you notice, coming to Israel from the Arab world, is that you have left the most courteous region of…

— Tony Horwitz

“The truth is that I’ve spent all my life with my binoculars trained on the Maybe Islands, a pristine place of fantasy…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Fuck what is written," Landsman says. “You know what?" All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices…

— Michael Chabon

“What had he said to them? "I bow my knees before the country, before the masses, before the whole people…" And what…

— Arthur Koestler

“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“This extended reflection on the Scriptures’ uses of “gospel” allows us to now offer a provisional definition. It must remain provisional until…

— Jonathan T. Pennington

“Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the human condition.…

— Wendell Berry

“To a Familiar Genius Flying By Reveal yourself, anonymous enchanter! What heaven hastens you to me? Why draw me to that promised…

— Vasily Zhukovsky

“The Desert Fathers believed that the wilderness had been created supremely valuable in the eyes of God precisely because it had no…

— Thomas Merton

“Lalla Ruk Dearest dream, my soul's enchantment Lovely guest from heav'n above, Most benevolent attender To the earthly realm below, You gave…

— Vasily Zhukovsky

“It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered…

— Barack Obama