Top 100 Quotes About The Promised Land
#1. Aaargh...that'll teach me to eat pig in the promised land. Sorry Baby Jesus.
Guy Delisle
#2. No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
Annie Dillard
#3. They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.
Don McLean
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
Leon Krier
#7. It's impossible to conquer the Promised Land and be successful in it without God's wisdom.
Sunday Adelaja
#8. While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
Wendell Johnson
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow
Dwight L. Moody
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
Tim Ferriss
#17. Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
Pope Paul VI
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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.
#22. Only those who believed what God had promised them inherited the Promised Land
Sunday Adelaja
#23. All spheres of life in society are mission fields. They are the "Promised Land" where the Lord
will lead us to.
Sunday Adelaja
#24. 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
#25. Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and when I got to the private school in Manhattan, I learned of what we called 'The Promised Land,' which are the Hamptons. I've always had an affinity for the Hamptons.
Mark Feuerstein
#26. I'm waxed clean - hairless as the day as I was born. But don't say 'Tia has no pubic hair.' That's so clinical. Use a nice euphemism. Say 'She's mowed her secret garden' or 'She's cleared the way to the Promised Land.' Because that's what it is, right?
Tia Carrere
#27. 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
#28. Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
Cotton Mather
#29. God gave the Israelites the Promised Land but told them they'd have to take what was theirs in fierce battle.
Beth Moore
#30. The shift of awareness is most important key to the road of peace. Peace sought by single nation or religion will inevitably generate conflict. Only peace centered on encompassing the whole Earth can lead us to the "promised land" of ancient wisdom.
Ilchi Lee
#31. Joshua Tree was named by Mormon pioneers- The arms looked like Joshua beckoning them to the promised land.
Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
#32. So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?
Tony Vigorito
#33. Do not be afraid! Our Father is patient, he loves us, he gives us Jesus to guide us on the way which leads to the promised land. Jesus is the light who brightens the darkness. He is our peace.
Pope Francis
#34. Because there is a belief that once you begin to open books, you will become a better person. It is Pandora's box, but in a good way. You are inching toward the promised land, page by page.
Don Borchert
#35. I have a dream:
One day we will get to the promised land.
Then the president will be me,
The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli ... that's it!
All wackness is now banned.
Pharoahe Monch
#36. Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate
unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land
John Dewey
#37. I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.
Anne Waldman
#38. There is no such place as the promised land, but it would be foolish to reject even an unpromised land as worthless without first inspecting it thoroughly.
Mary Balogh
#39. You will only find everything necessary for a happy and successful life in the Promised Land of your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#40. I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.
Eugene V. Debs
#41. You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.
James Callaghan
#42. Worldwide travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all-certainly not to Elsinore or the coast of Bohemia.
Jan Morris
#43. We are even more confident that when President Goodluck Jonathan returns in 2015, women would be talking about 50 percent, no longer 35 percent. As we give him unequivocal, undiluted, unreserved and unlimited support and as we march with him to 2015, PDP women will reach the promised land.
Kema Chikwe
#44. It was a fine country, or would be, different from any she had known. But if it was the promised land, it was not because of the trees or climate, but because, just getting here, they'd found something new inside themselves.
Karen Fisher
#45. We can never get to the Promised Land, for if we did, it would not longer be the Promised Land.
Benjamin Lichtenberg
#46. For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?
Claude Brown
#47. The word decease literally means "exodus" or "going out." The imagery is that of the children of Israel leaving Egypt and their former life of bondage, slavery, and hardship for the Promised Land. So death to the Christian is an exodus from the limitations, the burdens, and the bondage of this life.
Billy Graham
#48. 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
#49. We are exiles in Time's abyss, strangers now in the Promised Land.
D.B. Nielsen
#50. He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land.
William Faulkner
#51. Don't wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you've got to worship along the way.
Mark Batterson
#52. The further you are in the wilderness, the closer the Promised Land is.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#53. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Havelock Ellis
#54. I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.
Jose Mujica
#55. I heard the main reason the Israelites spent forty years wandering in the desert looking for the Promised Land was because Moses refused to ask directions.
Mary Connealy
#56. That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business.
Luke Bryan
#57. It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home.
Merle Haggard
#58. It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land.
Yes we can!
Barack Obama
#59. Fifteen years ago, France was the promised land of cooking. So I looked at a map, found five restaurants and faxed them to ask for a job. Within five minutes, I got a reply from the then three- star Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier.
Rene Redzepi
#60. When we join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we board the Good Ship Zion and sail with her wherever she goes until she comes into that millennial port. We stay in the boat, through squalls and stills, through storms and sunburn, because that is the only way to the promised land.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#61. Be creative, be inventive minded, dream bigger that's the way to the promised land (your destiny).
Euginia Herlihy
#62. I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#63. (From Slices) Her skirt's so short, she's advertisin' the promised land. Somebody oughta slap her naked, then set a match to that git-up.
Savannah
#65. Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.
Tim O'Reilly
#66. Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart,
but do not expect to reach the promised land
without going through some wilderness together.
Charlie W Shedd
#67. America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.
Alison Lurie
#68. God opens doors for you, but do not expect Him to walk through them for you. He delivered the Israelites from Egypt, but they were still required to walk to the Promised Land. They did not need to pray for a miracle, the miracle was in their feet.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#69. Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.
John Mellencamp
#70. The primary duty of every minister is to lead people into the "Promised Land.
Sunday Adelaja
#71. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And 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.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#72. The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.
Shelby Steele
#73. The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.
Herbert Croly
#74. I'm giving you every square inch of the land you set your foot on - just as I promised Moses.
Mark Batterson
#75. 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
#76. This is the land I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, "I will give it to your descendants." Deuteronomy 34:4
Beth Moore
#77. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#85. Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.
Joyce Meyer
#86. As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.
Dylan Moran
#87. For you to be successful in your promised land, you must study the land
Sunday Adelaja
#88. God's intention is to transform your life, your promised land, and your nation, and to use you to bring back the earth to Himself, just as He is doing with us in Ukraine
Sunday Adelaja
#89. If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#90. To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.
Bob Seger
#91. Instead, I would take a long, lonely journey toward adulthood with the dogged faith of the pioneer who has realized that there is no promised land but still holds out hope that the destination will be someplace better than here. On
Hope Jahren
#92. 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
#93. Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.
Martin Luther
#94. When they got to Oklahoma there were still more white people waiting for them, squatting on the land the Indians had been promised in the latest worthless treaty. Slow learners, the bunch.
Colson Whitehead
#95. She opened her eyes and found him watching her, his face a mixture of pride and wonder and such open affection that she could see that far-off land where they'd find a home, see that future that awaited them, and that glimmer of hope promised happiness she'd never considered or dared yearn for.
Sarah J. Maas
#96. Perfect study is the key to being effective in the land of your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#97. I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him.
Delta Burke
#98. Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.
Joan Didion
#99. Just because you wander in the desert, it does not mean there is a promised land.
Paul Auster
#100. To arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context,as pretty scenery. But to arrive after days of hard travel across the prairies would be to see them in another way, as a goal, a promised land.
Robert M. Pirsig
