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

  Mom, Mother, Land

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• 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.

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Address to sanitation workers, Memphis, Tenn., 3 Apr. 1968.

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• Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Land, Today

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• For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and shined and breathed into place, each moving in well-tried harmony of tone and texture and meaning with its neighbors, molding an almost living being so faithful to observable truth, so expressive of the mass of humanity and so aglow with the beauty of just proportions that the reader feels a chill in his legs or a catch in his throat.

  James Emanuel

  Moving, Land, Perfect

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• 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

  Talking, Land, Want

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• No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

  Annie Dillard

  Land, Peaceful, Way

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• 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

  Lying, Truth Will Set You Free, Land

  Song: Promised Land, Album: Evolve, 2003

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• We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountaintop. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Land, Justice, Diversity

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• 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.

  Change, Kings, Land

  Address to sanitation workers, Memphis, Tenn., 3 Apr. 1968.

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• The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

  Shelby Steele

  Opportunity, Land, Guarantees

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• Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

  Helen Keller

  Lying, Land, Dismayed

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• The Promised Land, for many people, though, is something that's far off in the future. People are saved, but they don't feel victory. They feel like they're in a wilderness and they're wandering. And so this book of Joshua gives us a picture of how we can come out of the wilderness in our own spiritual lives and enter into a season of victory.

  Max Lucado

  Spiritual, Book, Land

  Source: ww2.christianpost.com

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• 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

  Years, Land, Complaining

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• Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

  Cotton Mather

  Land, Wilderness, Passing

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• 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

  Land, People, Desire

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.97, Thomas Nelson

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• The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

  Havelock Ellis

  Lying, Work, Land

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• Don't wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you've got to worship along the way.

  Mark Batterson

  Land, Waiting, Way

  Mark Batterson (2009). “Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God”, p.47, Multnomah

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• You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it

  James Callaghan

  Future, Government, Land

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Business, Land, Want

  "Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches". Book edited by Stephen Marion Reynolds and Bruce Rogers (Life of Eugene V. Debs, p. 71), 1908.

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• California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Country, Land, California

  Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg, Chris Freeman (2001). “Conversations with Christopher Isherwood”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Wendell Johnson

  Land, Waiting, Forgotten

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• I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.

  Tim Ferriss

  Hope, Work, Land

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• 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

  Land, Literature, Prosperity

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  New York, School, Cities

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• You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

  Julia Cameron

  Land, New Frontiers, Frontiers

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jul 28, 2013

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