“God may promise not to destroy creation, but it is not a promise humankind made - to our peril.”
“Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.”
“Humankind has endless potential, but shows an endless capacity to fall short of that promise.”
“I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in the bad that may darken our days, in the good that may light our way. Tirzah, beloved, I promise to be true to you in all things until I die. And even beyond that, God willing”
“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.”
“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.”