94 Promised Land Quotes

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Famous Promised Land Quotes

The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates. — David Ben-Gurion

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood — Gamal Abdel Nasser

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong. — George Washington

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land. - Loretta Lynn

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land. — Loretta Lynn

This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy. — Golda Meir

Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And forever. — Menachem Begin

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes. — Marvin Olasky

This is our land. This is our world. This is our heritage, and with God's help, we shall reclaim this nation for Jesus Christ. And no power on earth can stop us. — D. James Kennedy

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain. — Theodor Herzl

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor. — Benjamin Harrison

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum. — Samuel Adams

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit. — Theodor Herzl

Peace is more precious than a piece of land. - Anwar Sadat

Peace is more precious than a piece of land. — Anwar Sadat

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. — David Ben-Gurion

Short Promised Land Quotes

  • The Holy Land... What an experience. I will never forget this day. — Justin Timberlake
  • Most Zionists dont believe that God exists but they do believe that he promised them Palestine — Ilan Pappe
  • We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard. — Douglas Mawson
  • I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. — Abraham Lincoln

Promised Land Image Quotes

Promised land quote Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.

Value Of Promise Quotes

In our way of working, we attach a great deal of importance to humility and honesty; With respect for human values, we promise to serve our customers with integrity. — Azim Premji

The process of building man means, in the final analysis, building the nation and instilling the values of a free, promising, stable and secure life. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word. — Brian Tracy

Promised land quote "Someday" is a disease that will take dreams to the grave with you.
"Someday" is a disease that will take dreams to the grave with you.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993). — Roger Wolcott Sperry

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. — Desmond Tutu

Promised land quote People with good intentions make promises, but people with good character keep them.
People with good intentions make promises, but people with good character keep them.

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation. — Mitt Romney

Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in areas like health, housing, education and employment. — Warren Mundine

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s. — Daniel Yankelovitch

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s. — Daniel Yankelovich

What Is Promise Quotes

God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you. — Charles Stanley

Living with faith and courage is something that life requires of each of us. Never, absolutely never, give up! Never give in no matter what! Fight it through! And I promise you something with all of my heart-God will help you. — Kathryn Kuhlman

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. — Abraham Lincoln

Promised land quote People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath

The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ is far above anything that can be measured in earthly wealth - and believers are not promised earthly wealth nor the gift of health. — Albert Mohler

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise. — Barbara Jordan

Promised land quote Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.
Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.

Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well. — Joni Eareckson Tada

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. — Suzanne Collins

Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. — David Ben-Gurion

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards. — Charles Stanley

Promise Or Promised Land Quotes

I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out. — Eugene V. Debs

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

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

Promised land quote Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. — Albert Camus

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

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

Promised land quote Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem and sm
Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

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

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

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife. — Jose Saramago

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

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David Ben-Gurion

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Theodor Herzl
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Gamal Abdel Nasser

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Loretta Lynn
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Read quotes by Golda Meir

Golda Meir
quotes on war, peace and forgiveness

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More Promised Land Quotes

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. — Pope Paul VI

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land. — Annie Dillard

It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home. — Merle Haggard

Promised land quote Empower your possibility with the power of your promise.
Empower your possibility with the power of your promise.

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. — Ray Davies

Failure is a tool to get to the promise land. We all enjoy light today. Thomas Edison Failed a thousand times for us. — Folorunsho Alakija

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. — Michael Ignatieff

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

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

God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. — Proverbs

Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow — Dwight L. Moody

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

Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. — Tariq Ramadan

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land. — Cotton Mather

The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance. — Eric Hoffer

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance. — Shelby Steele

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England. — Peter Shaffer

I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what. — Shinzo Abe

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.

I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land...Any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here. — Ronald Reagan

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise. — Herbert Croly

To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand. — Bob Seger

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land. — Cornel West

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are... That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity... because, if it's true, then we become estranged from all we know. — Steven Pressfield

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. — C. S. Lewis

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. — Havelock Ellis

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments. — Charles Spurgeon

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

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

Never compromise a dream. Do what you must. The fears, beasts, and mountains before you are part of the plan. Stepping stones to a promised land. To a time and place that is so much closer than even you expect. So don't let your eyes deceive you, for even as you read these words, your ship swiftly approaches. — Mike Dooley

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

A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it. — Charles R. Swindoll

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

Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility. — Laura Schlessinger

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

Christianity doesn't offer a smooth flight; it provides a safe landing. The promise of Jesus is not one of happiness, He promises righteousness. — Ray Comfort

While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk. — Wendell Johnson

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

Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what. — Shinzo Abe

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

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