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    Edmund Burke
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    Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

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    Samuel Johnson
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    Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

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    Mark Batterson
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    I believe that God never overpromises or underdelivers. He always delivers on His promises, but He does it on His timeline!”

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    Dwight L. Moody
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    God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

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    Benjamin Franklin
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    Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

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    William Carey
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    The future is as bright as the promises of God.

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    Henry Ward Beecher
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    Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

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    George Orwell
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    Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    The promise of glory is the promise, almost incredible and only possible by the work of Christ, that some of us, that any of us … shall please God… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted...

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

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    Algernon Charles Swinburne
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    John 14:2-3, Revelation 21:4, Revelation 22:1-2, Matthew 25:34, 1 Corinthians 2:9, Philippians 3:20-21
    No sign that ever was given To faithful or faithless eyes Showed ever beyond clouds riven So clear a paradise. Earth’s creeds may be seventy times seven And blood have defiled each creed But if such b...

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    N. T. Wright
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    What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work ...

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    Nelson Rockefeller
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    America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

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    Helen Keller
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    Joshua 1:9, Jeremiah 29:11, Isaiah 41:10, Psalm 27:13-14, Romans 8:18, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Hebrews 12:1-2
    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.

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    Broken Bells
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    The open doors left me wanting more . . . It’s another way to win a useless fight You’ve been lying so long don’t know you’re faking.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Romans 5:3-5, Hebrews 11:1, Psalm 42:11, Jeremiah 29:11, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Romans 8:24-25, Isaiah 40:31
    We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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    R. C. Sproul
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    Faith...involves trusting in the future promises of God and waiting for their fulfillment.

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    Ronald Heifetz
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    Leadership is often a matter of failing people’s expectations at a rate they can stand.

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    Thomas Brooks
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    Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss; he promises life, and pay...

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    Corrie Ten Boom
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    Let God's promises shine on your problems.

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Aren't you like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don't you often hope: "May this book, idea, cou...

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Aren’t you like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don’t you often hope: “May this book, idea, course, trip, jo...

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    Oscar Wilde
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    "There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy d...

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    Micah 7:7, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Romans 8:24-25, Job 13:15, Hebrews 10:23
    Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope beg...

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    Jennie Allen
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    Hebrews 11:1, Romans 15:13, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 5:3-5, Lamentations 3:21-23
    Doubt steals hope. And with no hope, everything that matters doesn’t feel as important anymore.

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    Larry Hein
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    May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing an...

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    Michael Lawrence
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    From the opening pages of Scripture to their close, the story of God’s redemptive activity is structured by promises made and promises kept.

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    Albert Camus
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    1 John 1:9, Luke 22:61-62, Genesis 50:20, 2 Timothy 2:13, Proverbs 25:19, John 21:17, Psalm 41:9
    I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

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    John Ortberg
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    The central promise in the Bible is not “I will forgive you,” although of course that promise is there. It is not the promise of life after death, although we are offered that as well. The most freque...

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    Michael Horton
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    American Christianity is a story of perpetual upheavals in churches and individual lives. Starting with the extraordinary conversion experience, our lives are motivated by a constant expectation for t...
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