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Covenant Quotes
On promises binding enough to shape history.
These covenant quotes explore theological ideas of agreement and obligation, noting that a covenant implies both authority and the possibility of being violated. Related themes continue in our Belief quotes.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gentiles
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- Nov 07, 2020
The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need women who are devoted to shepherding God's children along the covenant path toward exaltation; women who know how to receive personal revelation, who understand the power and peace of the temple endowment; women who know how to call upon the powers of heaven to protect and strengthen children and families; women who teach fearlessly.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character.
- Enforcing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that Israel is covenant land. That's very controversial, but I read the Bible literally, and I believe that God gave them that land, all the way back to Deuteronomy.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
God's word says for a man and a woman to be together, one man and one woman in the covenant of marriage to be together.
- Charter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020