Top 100 The Promised Quotes
#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. Ballardian banality comes from not getting the future that we were promised, or getting it too late to make the promised difference.
Warren Ellis
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
Leon Krier
#8. It's impossible to conquer the Promised Land and be successful in it without God's wisdom.
Sunday Adelaja
#9. With the birth of the babe in Bethlehem, there emerged a great endowment - a power stronger than weapons, a wealth more lasting than the coins of Caesar. This child was to become the King of kings and Lord of lords, the promised Messiah - Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Thomas S. Monson
#10. While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
Wendell Johnson
#11. The possession of a true testimony is the most valuable possession that one could have. It gives one knowledge, the hope and assurance that one, through obedience, can be a partaker of all the promised blessings.
Marion G. Romney
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow
Dwight L. Moody
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.
Lawrence Bossidy
#18. 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
#19. Medicine today invests heavily in information technology, yet the promised improvement in patient safety and productivity frankly have not been realized,
Peter Pronovost
#20. 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
#21. I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
Tim Ferriss
#22. Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
Pope Paul VI
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.
Frank Sinatra
#27. 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.
#28. In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.
Louis Kronenberger
#29. Only those who believed what God had promised them inherited the Promised Land
Sunday Adelaja
#30. All spheres of life in society are mission fields. They are the "Promised Land" where the Lord
will lead us to.
Sunday Adelaja
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. When we are baptized and confirmed, the promised blessing is that we may always have the Holy Ghost to be with us. If you are consistently good, you will have the companionship of the Holy Ghost much of the time.
David A. Bednar
#34. If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules - since that is a description, not of the defeat of death, but simply of death itself, seen from a different angle.
N. T. Wright
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
Cotton Mather
#38. To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept.
James E. Faust
#39. God expects every Christian to live a holy life. But holiness is not only expected; it is the promised birthright of every Christian.
Jerry Bridges
#40. God gave the Israelites the Promised Land but told them they'd have to take what was theirs in fierce battle.
Beth Moore
#41. The promised return of Christ should motivate you toward daily holy living.
Jim George
#42. 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
#43. Joshua Tree was named by Mormon pioneers- The arms looked like Joshua beckoning them to the promised land.
Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
#44. 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
#45. The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.
Howard Tayler
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised[*] Holy Spirit through faith.
Anonymous
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. You will only find everything necessary for a happy and successful life in the Promised Land of your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#54. The following afternoon, alone in their room, and oppressed by not yet having made the promised call to Connie ...
Jonathan Franzen
#55. 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
#56. You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.
James Callaghan
#57. I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me make in my own blood. And now I have returned to give you the promised blade.
T. Mountebank
#58. 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
#59. Hope is a motivation for pressing ahead, a sustained effort and a joy that the promised will be fulfilled at the right time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.
Jane Austen
#63. We can never get to the Promised Land, for if we did, it would not longer be the Promised Land.
Benjamin Lichtenberg
#64. It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God's law. They must cease to rely upon their own efforts for salvation, they must trust wholly in the merits of the promised Saviour, if they would be accepted of God.
Ellen G. White
#65. For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?
Claude Brown
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. We are exiles in Time's abyss, strangers now in the Promised Land.
D.B. Nielsen
#69. 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
#70. Don't wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you've got to worship along the way.
Mark Batterson
#71. holiness is not only expected; it is the promised birthright of every Christian. Paul's
Jerry Bridges
#72. The further you are in the wilderness, the closer the Promised Land is.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#73. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Havelock Ellis
#74. I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.
Jose Mujica
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home.
Merle Haggard
#78. Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results.
Jack Campbell
#79. When I was bartering to gain clients, I was self-sabotaging my business. I wasn't making money, and the promised "exchange of advertising" wasn't helping to grow my business.
Kim Beasley
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. Jesus not only understood Himself to be the promised Messiah, He also says and does things throughout the Gospels that make it clear He understood Himself to be God incarnate.
Keith Mathison
#83. 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
#84. In order to sell a product or a service, a company must establish a relationship with the consumer. It must build trust and rapport. It must understand the customer's needs, and it must provide a product that delivers the promised benefits.
Jay Conrad Levinson
#85. We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.
Henry B. Eyring
#86. Be creative, be inventive minded, dream bigger that's the way to the promised land (your destiny).
Euginia Herlihy
#87. 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.
#88. (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
#89. We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.
Louis Leakey
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Rather was it not a series of seven uneasy days, spent in restless pursuit of pleasure, and a wearisome anxiety to find out how to make the most of them? Where was the quiet, where the promised rest?
Charles Lamb
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. If we continue to live as we are living, will the promised blessings be fulfilled?
Carlos A. Godoy
#98. The primary duty of every minister is to lead people into the "Promised Land.
Sunday Adelaja
#99. 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.
#100. The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.
Shelby Steele
