Quotes About Covenant

No, I think marriage is a great thing.

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.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

Marriage is holy and it's private.

You've read the Torah, right? So you know the Torah defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

Wedlock is a narrow business.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

With this ring I thee wed with my body I thee worship and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

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

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

I drove from Addis Ababa to Aksum, where they have the Ark of the Covenant, to the Semien Mountains in the Highlands. I love how the country has a distinct identity and historical borders that werent randomly carved up by explorers.

Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.

You are my life, little one. We will ask Father Hummer to marry us in the way of your people." His white teeth gleamed at her. His dark eyes were warm with contentment. "I will accept the marriage as binding, and you will erase the word divorce and all of its meanings from your memory. That will please me." He grinned at her, male amusement taunting her.

The lesson of the biblical tale of Noah's ark was a simple one, a refrain that echoed throughout the Old Testament: Behave, or God will fuck you up.

Look, you mad tart, I have a covenant with God, which is: I don't mention that he has stocked the world full of villains, walleys, and madwomen, and in return he keeps his bloody hands off my willy.

Let your rain be your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household.

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

Whither thou goest, I will go; Where thou diest, will I die And there will I be buried: The Angel do so to me, and more also, If aught but death part thee and me.

Such a fuss ofer a few mundanes." Mrs Dark chuckled and moved to stand beside her sister, so that Will, with his blazing sword, was between Tessa and both ladies. "We have no quarrel with you, Shadowhunter, unless you choose to pick one. You have invaded our territory and broken the Covenant Law in doing so. We could report you to the Clave-" "While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly, they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way," Will said

We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are.

In sharp contrast to their pagan contemporaries, Israel's remembrance of the past was marked by two tendencies: a faith in Yahweh's fidelity to the Abrahamic covenant, on which Jewish confidence in the future was based, and the contrition that accompanied the remembrance of Israel's own violations of that covenant.

Now then," Rahab said, "please swear to me by the Lord that you will show kindness to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign that you will spare the lives of my family…and that you will save us from death." Othniel did not think that Ardon would speak, but he did. "Our lives for your lives if you don't tell what we are doing," Ardon said. "We will treat you kindly and faithfully when the Lord gives us the land.