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Promised Land Quotes

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.
America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which they fully expected their offspring to fulfill. So the words 'all men are created equal' took a life of its own, ultimately destined to end slavery and enfranchise women. And the words 'equal protection' and 'due process' inevitably led to the end of the words 'separate but equal,' ensuring that the walls of segregation would crumble, whether at the... Joe Biden
Fuck what is written," Landsman says. “You know what?" 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. “I don't care what is written. I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about... Michael Chabon
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cotton Mather quote: "Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are..."
Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land. Cotton Mather
... to arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context, as pretty scenery. But to arrive after days of hard travel across the prairies would be to see them in another way, as a goal, a promised land. Robert M. Pirsig
Bruce Springsteen quote: "Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a..."
Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land. Bruce Springsteen
Havelock Ellis quote: "The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. Havelock Ellis
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
Pope Paul VI quote: "Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised..."
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. Pope Paul VI

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