Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.
— Henri Nouwen
Revealing Broken Promises quotations
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.
Somewhere in between all the mind games, lies and seduction.
..I fell for you. Somewhere in between all the broken promises, manipulation and heartaches...I got over you. But, I guess I fibbed a few times too. Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby, here I am without you, and I survived.
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
Take a deep breath and take this to heart;
God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen.
I've never had my heart broken.
She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.
Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.
People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself.
If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.
Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying.
Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.
A promise must never be broken.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.
Trust is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing.
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
Better a broken promise than none at all.
Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
Don't make promises you can't keep.
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.
Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not.
We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.
Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill.
A broken promise is not a lie.
It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.
We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.
As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.