Top 40 My Promised Land Quotes
#1. Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read ... This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.
Daniel Gordis
#2. No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.
Charley Pride
#3. You cannot possess your Promised Land without a battle.
Sunday Adelaja
#4. The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord Balfour's Declaration of 1917 promised Britain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which didn't just mean the left-hand bit that became Israel.
Robert Fisk
#5. In both the Holy Land of the New Testament and the promised land of the Book of Mormon, [our Savior] spent considerable time teaching and instructing and training His councils and council leaders, and then He sent them forth to share what they had learned with others.
M. Russell Ballard
#6. I have faith in the future of this promised land of America and in its institutions of representative government, but more than that, I have faith in you, the youth of America, to build even more securely on the foundations laid by the faith and devotion of your pioneer fathers.
Harold B. Lee
#7. Sanity was a promised land, the Shangri-la she had been deported from as a teenager, and to which she intended to return to one day.
Elif Shafak
#8. I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
Tim Ferriss
#9. Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
Pope Paul VI
#10. Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
Benjamin Graham
#11. Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.
Helen Keller
#13. All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He's tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for its redemption.
Michael Chabon
#14. Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.
Jane Kirkpatrick
#15. I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#16. Only those who believed what God had promised them inherited the Promised Land
Sunday Adelaja
#17. All spheres of life in society are mission fields. They are the "Promised Land" where the Lord
will lead us to.
Sunday Adelaja
#18. The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.
C.S. Lewis
#19. The mountain is high, the valley is low, and you're confused on which way to go. So I've come here to give you a hand, and lead you into the promised land. So, come on and take a free ride, come on and sit here by my side, come on and take a free ride!
Edgar Winter
#20. There's a vacancy, won't you come to me And fill my empty spaces I'm a motel man in a promised land That's filled with empty faces So won't you bring your sorrows bring your dreams, It's a place for you to be There's no more tomorrow or that's how it seems Won't you come to me? I've got a vacancy
Harry Chapin
#21. I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.
Joyce Meyer
#22. While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
Wendell Johnson
#23. Aaargh...that'll teach me to eat pig in the promised land. Sorry Baby Jesus.
Guy Delisle
#24. No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
Annie Dillard
#25. Discovering your personal promised land may not be an easy task
Sunday Adelaja
#26. They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.
Don McLean
#27. There are a few of us who have latched on to this silly idea that we can change the world. We will develop the power to ignore what is popular and do what is right. One person can attain the power to lead hundreds of thousands of people to the promised land of their dreams.
Andy Andrews
#28. Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.
Jimmy Dean
#29. I'm giving you every square inch of the land you set your foot on - just as I promised Moses.
Mark Batterson
#30. Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
Leon Krier
#31. It's impossible to conquer the Promised Land and be successful in it without God's wisdom.
Sunday Adelaja
#32. I pray that we would let God take us through the desert - not just so that we can arrive in the Promised Land, but so that we can talk, or simply listen, to Him along the way.
Katie Kiesler
#33. They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie ... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.
Ani DiFranco
#34. Right now, you understand that you are going to have to leave your Egypt of financial debt. I pray that you enjoy your ride through the desert to the Promised Land of prosperity.
Celso Cukierkorn
#35. The land promised to Abraham and his descendants is once again theirs. God always keeps His promises. Even in times of cataclysmic upheaval and change, God's love and faithfulness are unchanging.
Lynn Austin
#36. Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow
Dwight L. Moody
#37. Having settled down in the promised land of money and adventure - returning to a land of your parents last days can be a big dilemma to many. Isn't your greatest wealth your parents, and the best adventure - to see them happy before they go.
Siddharth Katragadda
#38. This is the land I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, "I will give it to your descendants." Deuteronomy 34:4
Beth Moore
#39. God has blessed the vale of Kashmir with grace and grandeur. It is a land of lush green meadows, crystal clear springs and lakes, the majestic rivers and streams, the snow white and roaring cataracts, sweet waters, high snow-covered peaks make it a perfect archetype of the promised land of God.
Tarif Naaz
#40. We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.
Lysa TerKeurst
