“The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!” LoveFirstsHeartChildrenTwoTimeChangeFeetSkyRocksChangedPromiseFleshDustWitnessInstantThings ChangeConstancyChildren LoveCrumblingVicissitudes Author:Denis Diderot
“Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-counsciousness" of the promise given her, "He goeth before.” InspirationGivenChristRocksTaughtPromiseStormAnchorsGoeth Author:Elisabeth Elliot
“For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.” WorldRealityImaginationRocksPromiseWingsFairyOutletsHintsIneffableReverieUnreality Book:(The Great Gatsby) Source: (The Great Gatsby)
“Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.” ChildrenRealOpportunityNationsJusticeDarkDemocracyPathDoorsRocksPromiseInjusticeLiftsValleysBrotherhoodSegregationI Had A DreamDesolateRacial JusticeI Have A Dream SpeechSoul ForceGradualism Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.” ThinkingHandsSeemsPastBeautifulLife IsLostLosesWalksRocksPromiseDown AndHolesChestsGatheringLife Is LikeBerriesAprons Book:Home Safe: A Novel Source: Home Safe: A Novel