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“When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.”

“A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.”

Firsts Goal Goes On Promise Sight Symbols

Book:The Collected Works

Source: The Collected Works

“A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.”

Way Feelings Action Certain Goes On Promise

Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all my life, and seen it's most faithful worshippers crumble in the end, screaming just to live, as if all the dark veils and the lillies and the smell of candles, and grandiose promises of the grave meant nothing. I knew that. But I always wished I was dead. It was a way to go on living”

Ifs Way Ends Fall Wish Easy Dark Goes On Promise Falling In Love Smell Graves Faithful Candle Veils Worshippers Grandiose Easy To Fall In Love

Author:Anne Rice

“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, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.”

Ifs Way Feels Wells Long Made I Can Feelings Might Action Certain Can Do Goes On Promise Hungry Cease Commit Being True Beloved Headache

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.”

Knows Giving Asks Dangerous Sweet Goes On Promise Mad Determined I Promise Being Bad Sweet Smile

Book:Disgrâce

Source: Disgrâce

“You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are dark and hard to navigate. The wet walls touch your shoulders on each side. When the trees were there I cared that they were there. And now they are gone, does it matter? The passages where no one waits go on and give no promise of an end. You will find yourself among people, Faces, clothing, teeth and hair and words, and many words When there was life, I said that life was wrong. What do I say now? You understand?”

Source: The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles

“I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I’d never existed.”

Ifs Lasts Goes On Promise Moon Last Time I Promise Interference New Moon Twilight Edward False Promises

Book:New Moon

Source: New Moon

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“...But the one thing that I would never, ever recover from would be losing you. You made me promise before to go on if that happened, but Bones, I wouldn't want to. - Cat from This Side of the Grave”

Ifs Want Made Would Be Sides Happened One Thing Goes On Promise Losing Cat Bones Graves

Author:Jeaniene Frost