Pastoral Resources

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.