“When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in Heaven to the Apostles, when he speaks of the kingdom of the Father, he is always pointing toward eternity. However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content. He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not. The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal.” KnowsUseEarthFatherSpeakHeavenSoundCompanySonPromiseEternalCrossesEternityInfiniteKingdomsParadiseFollowersThievesEchoesPointingApostles Author:Adrienne von Speyr
“John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.” PeopleBookStatesHomeDreamTodayGuySpeakPoorUnitedUnited StatesLandPromiseConcernPoliceWesternSeekingIslandsUrgesImmigrantsTomsCopPoor PeopleTrailsWrathMexicanGrapesSpeak The TruthProtagonistsInsurgentPromised LandFergusonPolice PowerPerfidyMarching On Author:Richard Corliss
“Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.” IfsWayEyeSpiritCertainSpeakEffortGraceTomorrowComfortPromiseOffersPracticalsAssuranceRemindersTangibleConsoleExtendingBruisedBest EffortBetter DaysDearest Friend Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.” ThinkingSeemsSpeakPromiseSincerity Author:John Tillotson
“There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.” LyingThreeSpeakBreakPromiseBetrayalHypocrisyBetrayTrustedHypocriteBetrayal Of TrustBeing BetrayedFriend BetrayalBetraying Friends Author:Elijah Muhammad
“What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.” PeopleWayChildrenTwoLastsSpeakSilenceFateWeekPromiseLonelyTongueNativeTragicEldersAnticipateTwo WeeksPlightTragic Fate Author:Wade Davis
“People who have left the group talk about how a religious inspiration took them to ISIS. It was their feeling of being marginalized as Muslims in the society where they were living, and then buying into the promise of a caliphate and of a Muslim land that is governed as in the time of the prophet. I have yet to meet anybody, or speak to anybody, who was not religiously motivated at some level.” PeopleFeelingsInspirationLeftSpeakReligiousLevelsGroupsLandPromiseProphetBuyingMotivatedIsisMarginalized Author:Rukmini Maria Callimachi
“The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.” SpeakWonderPromiseScriptureReach OutProphecyWonder Of Nature Author:Max Lucado
“Leading with character gives the wise leader clear-cut advantages. They are easier to trust and follow; they honor commitments and promises; their words and behavior match; they are always engaged in and by the world; they are open to "reflective backtalk": they can speak with conviction because they believe in what they are saying...and everyone else knows that. They are comfortable in their own skin. They feel at ease in the spotlight and they enjoy it there. They tend to be more receptive to opportunity and risk.” KnowsWorldGivingFeelsBelieveCharacterOpportunitySpeakEnjoyLeaderClearWiseCuttingRiskHonorEasierPromiseBehaviorComfortableCommitmentAdvantageSkinsConvictionEaseEngagedSpotlightReceptiveWise Leaders Author:Warren G. Bennis
“I suppose it goes without saying that negative speaking so often flows from negative thinking about ourselves. We see our own faults, we speak--or at least think--critically of ourselves, and before long that is how we see everyone and everything. No sunshine, no roses, no promise of hope or happiness. Before long we and everybody around us are miserable.” ThinkingLongSpeakPromiseNegativeFlowRoseFaultsMiserableSunshineNegative Thinking Author:Jeffrey R. Holland
“Nick could see the gun shaking in Alan's hand now, in tight, terrified spasms. "Last night we put a magician in the river," Alan said, his voice low and intense as if he was making a promise."Maybe we should send you to join him." "You know the rules," the woman whispered. "Don't shoot the messenger." Nick interrupted, leaning down to speak in her ear. "Do they say 'Don't cut the messenger in half with your great big sword'?” IfsKnowsShouldSaidHandsBigsLastsNightSpeakVoiceHalfCuttingPromiseLowsGunRiversEarsIntenseTerrifiedMagicianLast NightShakingMessengersInterrupted Book:The Demon's Lexicon Source: The Demon's Lexicon
“Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.” IfsKnowsMenShouldMadeRealSelfDreamNightOpportunitySpeakSleepResultsPromiseLaborWineGravesReal LifeAwakeReliefPhenomenonUnnoticedConstancyUnheard Book:Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Source: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
“I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg you to hold me close to you, promise you'll never let go?” IfsEyeTurnsSpeakPromiseLetting GoScreamHold MeNever Let Go Book:Tricks Source: Tricks