quotes about Covenant
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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.
-- Anne Hutchinson -
That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital Ship.
-- Avery Johnson -
Regardless of our individual circumstances, we can all enjoy the full blessings of priesthood power through keeping the covenants we have made at baptism and in the temple.
-- Bonnie L. Oscarson -
Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will..
-- Bruce C. Hafen -
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God will keep His promises to you as you honor your covenants with Him.
-- Carole M. Stephens -
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.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
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.
-- D. A. Carson -
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Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.
-- Emanuel Cleaver -
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.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.
-- Henry B. Eyring -
Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.
-- Henry B. Eyring -
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Let us truly be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people….Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience.
-- Howard W. Hunter -
To make a covenant with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation, and to renew that covenant by partaking of the sacrament is equally serious. The solemn moments of thought while the sacrament is being served have great significance. They are moments of self-examination, introspection, self-discernment...a time to reflect and to resolve.
-- Howard W. Hunter -
God Most High has said, "Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue?" . . . Know, O man, that the covenant of servanthood is incumbent upon you, and that the covenant of Lordship is incumbent upon His magnanimity, as He Most High has said, ". . . and fulfill your covenant, I shall fulfill My covenant."
-- Ibn Ata Allah -
The covenant of your servanthood is that you be a servant to God, not to someone else, and that you know that everything except God is a servant to God, as He Most High has said, "There is none in the heaven and the earth but cometh unto the Compassionate as a servant."
-- Ibn Ata Allah -
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Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.
-- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron JakobovitsSource : "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book" by Immanuel Jakobovits, Centenary Edition, (p. 17), 1990.
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No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of morality of life, consecration of person to high ideals, devotion to truth, patriotism to nation, and allegiance to God.
-- James E. TalmageSource : James E. Talmage (2015). “The House of the Lord”, p.102, Latter-day Strengths
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Covenants with God help us to know who we really are.
-- Jean A. StevensSource : "Mormon Feminists Surprised By New Wording Referring To Women As ‘Blessed Disciples Of Jesus’" by Peggy Fletcher Stack, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2014.
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In the Old Testament, God dealt with His people as a nation...Their relationship was completely external. But in the New Covenant, the presence of God moved out of the temple and into our hearts.
-- John Chisum -
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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.
-- John Milton -
Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.
-- Joseph B. Wirthlin -
The law is about you looking at yourself. The new covenant is all about you seeing Jesus.
-- Joseph Prince -
When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children,
-- Julie B. Beck -
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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.
-- Kenneth Burke -
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.
-- L. Lionel Kendrick -
We go to the temple to make covenants with Heavenly Father. We return home to keep them.
-- Linda K. Burton -
The best way to strengthen a home, current or future, is to keep covenants.
-- Linda K. Burton -
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As we renew and honor our covenants, our burdens can be lightened and we can continually become purified and strengthened.
-- Linda S. Reeves -
Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.
-- Michael Novak -
But our trials need not be spiritually fatal. They need not take us from our covenants or from the household of God.
-- Neil L. Andersen -
United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.
-- Pope John Paul II -
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God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires, and accepts what he gives.
-- Richard SibbesSource : Richard Sibbes, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE BRUISED REED”, Lulu.com
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When we understand our baptismal covenant and the gift of the Holy Ghost, it will change our lives and will establish our total allegiance to the kingdom of God.
-- Robert D. Hales -
As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.
-- Robert D. Hales -
Truth, covenants, and ordinances enable us to overcome fear and face the future with faith.
-- Russell M. Nelson -
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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.
-- Samuel Rutherford -
The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of corruption/ stealing/ killing/ destruction/ idolatry - break it right now!
-- T. B. Joshua -
No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.
-- Thomas BostonSource : Thomas Boston (1767). “A view of the covenant of grace from the sacred records: Wherein the parties in that covenant, the making of it; its parts ... and the administration thereof, are distinctly considered. Together with the trial of a saving personal in-being in it, and the way of instating sinners therein ...”, p.91
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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.
-- Thomas Goodwin -
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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 -
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
-- William Lloyd GarrisonSource : Resolution adopted by Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 27 Jan. 1843.
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A covenant energy is anchored on the planet at this time, and it carries the new contract for the Earth plane in this second phase of this new dawning era.
-- Christine McCormick Day -
In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments.
-- Lance B. WickmanSource : Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org
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During the tribulation there will be a national turning of Israel to the Lord; they will walk in righteousness. ... God established an everlasting covenant with Israel and it will be of everlasting duration.
-- Paul P. Enns -
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.
-- Roger Sherman -
Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, & empowers us.
-- Rosemary M. Wixom -
The covenant between Jews and God was conditional on their respect for human rights. The reason they were expelled from the land was that they were more interested in money and power and treated the poor and aliens with contempt.
-- Stephen Sizer -
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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.
-- John Robinson -
Enduring to the end requires total commitment to the Savior and to our covenants.
-- Kevin W. Pearson