Pastoral Resources

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

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.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it.

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.