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Promise Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back…
- We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
- 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…
- All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died…
- Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot…
- What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by…
- Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not…
- The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm…
- 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,…
- ...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who…
- 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…
More Promise Quotes
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. — Arthur Balfour
- At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. — Honore de Balzac
- Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests… — Karl Barth
- Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. — Bernard Baruch
- Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he… — Bob Beauprez
- Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens. — Bob Beauprez
- Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce
- Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. — Buffalo Bill
- Let God's promises shine on your problems. — Corrie Ten Boom
- I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain. — Conrad Black