Covenant Quotes
238 Covenant quotes by 141 unique authors
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And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should…
— Michael C. Burgess
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Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. We…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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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…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable,…
— Penelope Lively
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[It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament] because of the perfection of the New Covenant. The…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes…
— Brigham Young
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There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The…
— Brigham Young
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Suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife, and put a javelin through both of them. You would be justified, and they would…
— Brigham Young
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All that the Lord requires of us is strict obedience to the laws of life. All the sacrifice that the Lord asks of his people…
— Brigham Young
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There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come times of trial…
— Charles Spurgeon
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We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.
— Carl F. H. Henry
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In early Judaism, the priesthood was maintained within various families and passed down from father to son, thus necessitating marriage. But this is the old…
— Michael Coren
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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and…
— Honore de Balzac
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The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.
— Russell M. Nelson
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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…
— Rowan Williams
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…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that…
— Pat Conroy
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As I swept the last bit of dust, I made a covenant with myself: I will accept. Whatever will be, will be. I have a…
— Wangari Maathai
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The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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