Covenant Quotations

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.

A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character.

There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people.

They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.

The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory.

The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.

At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.

A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.

Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal destination. It is one of beauty and glory beyond understanding. It is worth the effort. It is worth making decisive corrections now and then staying on course.

Let us not give up. Let us be true to our covenants. Let us never lose sight of our Advocate and Redeemer as we walk toward Him, one imperfect step after another.

That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital Ship.

The covenant stops you from building sports facilities, which I said is not very helpful,

Make covenants and receive ordinances for yourself. Then steadily and consistently work to provide ordinances in the temple for your own ancestors.

The Priestly office of Christ has God as its immediate object. It propitiates God; it intercedes to God. It satisfies God's justice; It pacifies God's wrath: it secures God's favor; it seals God's covenant love; and gives effect to God's eternal purpose and grace.

One thing that I always loved about, say, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', is that Indiana Jones gets the Ark of the Covenant about sixty percent of the way through the movie. And then the rest of it is get-out-alive. To me, that's really cool. Because he's the one you care about at the end of the day.

I believe what they think is this governor broke a covenant of honesty and personal responsibility. I don't think he can regain that public trust.

If such an event occurred and Belden were unable to obtain waivers or otherwise resolve the covenant violation, an acceleration of the amounts under the credit agreement or the termination of the ISDA agreement could create a default under the indenture for Belden's $192 million senior secured notes.

Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Two great issues of our time are addressed by Jim Wallis, and his thought-provoking answers make powerful reading for anyone interested in social change. Jim Wallis challenges us to create a society that both addresses injustice and stresses personal responsibility, and his call for a global covenant through which rich countries meet their obligations to the poor will have a resonance throughout the world.

We try to teach more than just basketball. We try to touch the spiritual side of the players, too. That's why we used the twist about covenants. We signed a covenant stating that we wanted to be remembered. We used the scripture Habakkuk 2:2, where it says 'See a vision and write it clear and simple.' So we wrote it down, that we wanted to be remembered, signed it and started working and playing as such since then.

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.

Covenant is a good shooting team and their three-pointers made it a close game.

Even if it manages to avoid breaching its covenant this quarter, the company may not be able to forestall the debt-covenant day of reckoning much longer, as long as its EBITDA continues to erode, ... And that is the substance of our story - that Gap is flirting with a serious liquidity problem.

There's no question things are stinky at Gap, but to say fourth-quarter results will be so bad as to cause them to violate their debt covenant is a huge stretch of the imagination.

The Ten Commandments are a powerful statement of the covenant God made with his people,

A covenant is defined as a contract. And the terms of a contract have to be negotiated.

That Movie Gallery data point that came out last night was very ominous. It implies that for the third quarter of '05, Blockbuster could be in violation of its debt covenant again,

They do not pay regard to ties of relationship nor those of covenant in the case of a believer; and these are they who go beyond the limits.

It's that kind of attitude when we talk about getting better. How do we get better? We get better in the mind. We have a veteran team, they know how to do it. We stay disciplined with our defense and our principles and we make this kind of covenant with each other that we're going to defend.

I pray, Sir, prove it that I said they preached nothing but a covenant of works.

He is a Shadowhunter,” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.” “He’s my friend,” said Magnus coldly. “His loyalty is to me.

The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord has placed His stamp of approval on both the keystone and the capstone.

The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?

We don't need a "New Covenant." We need a new Congress.

God makes the covenant, and observes it as He pleases.

Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and celebrated like the sudden meeting of friends, exciting and worthwhile though that is, but thought through and relished, planned and prepared -- an ultimately better way for the relationship to grow and at the same time a way of demonstrating what the relationship is all about.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of His holy word. I beseech you, remember (it is an article of your church covenant) that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the word of God.

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church

Those that set God always before them and walk before him with all their hearts, shall find him as good as his word and better; he will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them.

Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.

The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.

And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

The Chinese authorities indicated that they want to ratify the covenant as early as possible.

The company disclosed one technical covenant breach that appears so small that it raised myriad questions among investors as to why the special dividend was canceled rather than just postponed.

Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Christ and his benefits go inseparably and undividedly... Many would willingly receive his privileges, who will not receive his person; but it cannot be; if we will have one, we must take the other too: Yea, we must accept his person first, and then his benefits: as it is in the marriage covenant, so it is here.

The law is about you looking at yourself. The new covenant is all about you seeing Jesus.

When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.

Truth, covenants, and ordinances enable us to overcome fear and face the future with faith.

I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant.

A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.

A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself. For the right men have by Nature to protect themselves, when none else can protect them, can by no Covenant be relinquished. ... [The right] to defend ourselves [is the] summe of the Right of Nature.

The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it; if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath.

Covenants without swords are but words.

If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would lose all. But because we have Christ for our tutor, and He has our heaven in His hand, therefore the covenant it must be perpetual.

Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.

Because God is the living God, He can hear; because He is a loving God, He will hear; because He is our covenant God, He has bound Himself to hear.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.