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“Deliverance is always found on 'the mount'; living faith must first prove to God that it has taken His word and promise for victory.”

Firsts Found Taken Victory Promise Prove Deliverance

Author:Rees Howells

“Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.”

Giving Found Grace Promise Absence Defined Midst Hardship God's Grace

Author:Stuart Scott

“Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.”

Years Earth Found Promise Slave Rounds

Book:John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848

Source: John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848

“The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is guilty who violates one of the original laws which dominate the society and which are mostly derived from a divine founder; the boy who is accepted into the tribal community and learns its laws, which bind him thenceforth, learns to promise; this promise is often given under the sign of death, which is symbolically carried out on the boy, with a symbolical rebirth.”

Knows Men Form Law Found Given Community Boys Divine He Man Promise Concepts Originals Guilt Accepted Guilty Most Powerful Primitive Founders Rebirth

Author:Martin Buber

“Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.”

Spiritual Motivation Found Grows Growth Imagination Doubt Promise Ego Profound Ideology Certainty Expansion Truism New Knowledge Dispelling

Author:James Hollis

“Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.”

Ifs Giving Should Found Given Christ Promise Hundred Rewards Sake Merit Castles

Author:Martin Luther

“I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because of its infinite promise. Justice can triumph, wrongs can be righted, and pain can be alleviated, if the right fix is found. The optimistic illusion that one can change the world is difficult to resist, especially when from time to time that illusion is sustained by even a hint of reality. Change does happen in the political process.”

“Kisses are but like sands of gold and silver, found upon the ground which are not worth much themselves but as they promise a mine near too be dig'd.”

Found Mines Promise Kissing Gold Sand Silver Gold And Silver

Author:Theresa Villiers

“My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be found. And even if it were lurking somewhere, I might never know it in my lifetime. It had become hard for me to continue to believe in love's promise when everywhere I turned the enchantment of power of the terror of fear overshadowed the will to love.”

Ifs Knows Years Believe Important Hard Might Found Grief Sadness Promise Despair Lifetime Terror Heavy Companion Rooted Parting Enchantment Lurking Believe In Love

Author:Bell Hooks

“I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.”

Young Found Calling Promise I Promise

Book:A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“You have to know... What you have to know in all of this, through all of this, is that no matter how lost you are in this maze of hell and confusion, that in the end, I promise you, you will be found.”

Knows Ends Matter Found Lost Hell Promise Confusion I Promise Mazes Lost You

Author:Allison Winn Scotch

“I testify that in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is found the priesthood authority to administer the ordinances by which we can enter into binding covenants with our Heavenly Father in the name of His Holy Son. I testify that God will keep His promises to you as you honor your covenants with Him.”

“Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.”

Mean Spirit Found Promise Illusion Ghost Vanity Conferences Departed Conjuring

Book:The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny

Source: The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny

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

Ifs Political Found Politics Politician Promise Taxes Dinner Debt Spending Missionary Constituents Cannibal

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.”

Heart Found Sun Food Wall Promise Seasons Weight Cooking Woods Culinary Rats Pulse Dungeons

Author:Bernard DeVoto

“The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.”

“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”

World Way Want Body Found Promise New Things Keeping Promises Kept Promises Promises That Are Broken

Book:Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

Source: Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

“Lesbian?” Payton turned around and saw J.D. standing there. Maybe it was the wine. Maybe she was basking in the glow of their successful pitch to Gibson’s. Maybe it was her promise to Laney to be the “New Payton,” or maybe it was a combination of all those things. But Payton actually found herself smiling at J.D. It’s just an excuse, the lesbian thing,” she said.”

Said Found Successful Saws Promise Standing Wine Excuse Combination Standing There Basking

Author:Julie James

“What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.”

People Two Together Found Simple Promise Life Together Simple Words Small Simple

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.”

Ifs Men Humans Reason Found Influence Sorrow Promise Truth Is Perfection Irresistible Discouragement Great Expectations Unqualified Restraining

Book:Great Expectations: With an Introduction and Contemporary Criticism

Source: Great Expectations: With an Introduction and Contemporary Criticism

“How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.”

Ifs Years Heart Home Faces Joy Night Found Felt Changed Duty Promise Bed Lips Sat Coming Home Rosy

Book:Anne of Green Gables

Source: Anne of Green Gables

“Once again Erak bellowed with laughter. "Your master here went nearly the same shade of green as his cloak," he told Will. Halt raised an eyebrow. "At least I found a use for that damned helmet," he said, and the smile disappeared from Erak's face. "Yes. I'm not sure what I'm going to tell Gordoff about that," he said. "He made me promise I'd look after that helmet. It's his favorite-a real family heirloom." "Well it certainly has a lived in feel to it now," Halt told him, and Will noticed there was a hint of malicious pleasure in his eye.”

Feels Wells Looks Made Said Real Use Eye Faces Found Pleasure Masters Promise Laughter Green Raised Not Sure His Eyes Shade Eyebrows Hints Halt Cloaks Helmet Malicious Heirlooms Real Family

Author:John Flanagan

“She is Melusina, the water goddess, and she is found in hidden springs and waterfalls in any forest in Christendom, even in those as far away as Greece. (...) A man may love her if he keeps her secret and lets her alone when she wants to bathe, and she may love him in return until he breaks his word, as men always do, and she sweeps him into the depths with her fishy tail, and turns his faithless blood to water. The tragedy of Melusina, whatever language tells it, whatever tune it sings, is that a man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.”

Ifs Men Want May Turns Found Language Water Can Do Secret Break Blood Return Promise Spring Tragedy Depth Forests Tunes Goddess Far Away Tails Greece Waterfalls Christendom Faithless Fishy

Author:Philippa Gregory

“There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. How many of us are ready to have our lives judged? What would happen if we were found wanting?”

Ifs Happens Found Sin Secret Emotion Our Lives Ready Promise Committed Privacy Judged Abandoned Deities Worshippers Raw Emotion

Book:Magic Burns

Source: Magic Burns

“The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not only for its own characters caught in its own plotlines; it offers magical metamorphoses to the one who opens the door, who passes on what was found there, and to those who hear what the storyteller brings. The faculty of wonder, like curiosity can make things happen; it is time for wishful thinking to have its due.”