Quotes About Covenant

In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

And He was the one who invented marriage so that the blazing fire of romantic love could become something even more beautiful - a pulsing, red-hot ember of covenant love in marriage. Why did He do it? For the same reason that He made sunsets and mountain ranges and fireflies! Because He's good. Because He wants to give us a million different opportunities to see just how wonderful He is.

I love the institution of marriage.

Pressed by the ministers in private, she had admitted what she believed: that a minister who, in her view, was not sealed with the spirit could not preach a covenant of grace "so clearly as Cotton.

Never break a covenant, whether you make it with a false man or a just man of good conscience. The covenant holds for both, the false and the just alike.' Aye,

Wrath makes the heart pound, impels us against our nearest relations, drives the tongue to curses, creates havoc with the mind, generates hatred of our dearest, and dissolves the covenant of friendship.

From one end of the Bible to the other, God assures us that He will never go back on His promises.

The perfect marriage is a uniting of three persons—a man and a woman and God. That is what makes marriage holy.

Marriage is God's invention, not ours! Society didn't establish it; God did.

The first hint of the Gospel comes from Genesis 3:15, this is the first promise of salvation.

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.

After all,we are partners in this land,co-signers of a covenant.At my touch the wildbraid of creationtrembles.

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

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.

When the Bible speaks of God's love for us and the kind of love we are to have for him and for other people, the word is always apage, signifying a commitment to act.

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

Love is one factor - but not the only on - that God uses to promote the permanence of the marriage bond.

In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna--a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night--to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.

I believe God has a future for ethnic Israel.

The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him.

Because marriage celebrated in the Church is a sacrament, it cannot be undone. The Church cannot break a bond created by Christ himself.

When we lift the cup of our life and share with one another our sufferings and joys in mutual vulnerability, the new covenant can become visible among us. The surprise of it all is that it is often the least among us who reveal to us that our cup is a cup of blessings.

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