26 Covenant Quotes for You to Enjoy

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself. Leonard Cohen

Dreams Constitution People Nation Every Perceived Given Beyond Covenant Condition Itself Sovereign Land Sweetest Guarantee

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners. Rowan Williams

God Marriage Echoes Absolute Between Partners Because Female Faithfulness Covenant His Male Different Place Persons Speaks Radically Unique Chosen

Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together. Winona LaDuke

Work Needs You Together Work Hard Water Mother Will Our Earth Station Wings Feet Protect Mother Earth Courts Covenant Commit Whether Them Land Us Roots Hard Descendants Radio Radio Station Keep

The Israelites frequently forsook God, and he as frequently forsook them. But when they repented and returned to him, he remembered his covenant and delivered them from their distresses. Adoniram Judson

God Delivered He Remembered Him Returned Frequently Covenant His Them

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. Anne Hutchinson

Business Thought Preach Say Cotton Between Conceive Another Covenant Did Difference Them Might Apostles Works

The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote of conduct and of the consequences of conduct: they were concerned with a society of will and commandment. Cynthia Ozick

Will Society Consequences Touched Wrote Concerned Covenant George Were Commandment Pinnacle Dickens Conduct Novel Tolstoy Jewish

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. Edmund Morgan

Wisdom Age Men Too Some Some Men Constitutions Touched More Sacred Ark Suppose Like Beyond Look Reverence Covenant Than Amendment Did Human Ascribe Sanctimonious Them Deem

Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God. Elijah Parish Lovejoy

God Me Mercy Unbelief Seems He Sin Most Covenant Sins

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam. Ezra Taft Benson

Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart. John Eldredge

Work Heart Old Christ Living Wicked Says Promise New Most Because Still Testament Covenant After View Old Testament Christians

Things that become important to economies become ritualized and become deified. Because I'm Jewish, I always thought it was interesting that in Judaism, salt seals a bargain, particularly the covenant with God. Some people, when they bless bread, they dip it in salt. Same thing exists in Islam. Mark Kurlansky

God People Thought Some People Important Islam Become Salt Same Thing Dip Some Economies Bless Particularly Judaism Because Always Covenant Exists Same Bread Interesting Bargain Seals Thing Things Jewish

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. Meir Soloveichik

God History People Example Nation Ancient Would Abraham Abraham Lincoln Only Inspired Had He Almost Call Course Because Lincoln Covenant Role America Chosen Believed Play

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

Truth First Believe Jews Must Judaism Covenant Depends Christians

The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. Rene Cassin

Long before it was 'Raided' and 'Lost' with Indiana Jones, the Ark of the Covenant was originally stolen from the Israelites by The Philistines; The Ark of the Covenant was the nuclear bomb of its age: when activated, it was devastating. Rob Liefeld

Age Long Lost Before Indiana Indiana Jones Devastating Ark Covenant Stolen Originally Bomb Nuclear Nuclear Bomb

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective. Russell M. Nelson

God Made Restrictive Protective Covenant Regarded Should

The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it so. In the case of 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,' it was absolutely necessary to my intentions. Stephen R. Donaldson

Thomas Unnecessary Neither Case Structure Except Absolutely Writer Simply Make Covenant Nor Intentions Story Technique Necessary

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. Tim LaHaye

God operates the world by covenants. Those covenants have specific jurisdictions and responsibilities, not to be infringed upon by another covenant. Tony Evans

God World Those Responsibilities Another Covenant Specific

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. Joseph B. Wirthlin

God Marriage Priesthood Our Solemn Enter Temple Sacred New Make Covenant Go Commandments Commitments Endowment Ordained Confirmed Baptized Eternal Brethren Keep Everlasting Receive

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