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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. -- Rene Cassin
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
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. -- Rene Cassin
Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken. -- Emanuel Cleaver
A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective. -- Russell M. Nelson
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. -- William Lloyd Garrison
Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant. -- Michael Novak
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
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. -- Thomas Goodwin
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself. -- Leonard Cohen
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
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
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. -- Rowan Williams
Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant. -- John Pearson
God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us. -- Joseph Prince
The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now. -- David Novak
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. -- Rene Cassin
We don't need a "New Covenant." We need a new Congress. -- Pat Robertson
We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are. -- Geraldine Brooks
Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it. -- Timothy Keller
That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital Ship. -- Avery Johnson
A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd. -- Thomas Hobbes
The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love. -- Henry B. Eyring
Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs. -- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us. -- Russell M. Nelson
Too many Christians reverse New Covenant commands as we seek, through condemnation of the world, the return of the never-existent, demonic myth of the "Christian Nation"! -- Gary Patton
A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death. -- Thomas Hobbes
When you choose whether to make or keep a covenant with God, you choose whether you will leave an inheritance of hope to those who might follow your example. -- Henry B. Eyring
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 do with the Wright amendment today. -- Michael C. Burgess
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In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it. -- William Tyndale
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
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
Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then. -- Robert Jordan
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell. -- Saint Augustine
The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it so. In the case of 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,' it was absolutely necessary to my intentions. -- Stephen R. Donaldson
As we touch the temple and love the temple, our lives will reflect our faith. As we go to the holy house, as we remember the covenants we make therein, we will be able to bear every trial and overcome each temptation. -- Thomas S. Monson
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. -- Thomas Jefferson
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A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants. -- David A. Bednar
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 do with the Wright amendment today. -- Michael C. Burgess
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. -- James Dobson
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam. -- Ezra Taft Benson
A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled. -- David Augsburger
Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart. -- John Eldredge
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. -- Cynthia Ozick
They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business. -- Anne Hutchinson
When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together. -- Winona LaDuke
God has still a land covenant with Israel. -- David Wilkerson
God's covenant with the church and Israel is unbreakable. -- David Wilkerson
God makes the covenant, and observes it as He pleases. -- Mason Cooley
Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot. -- Sun Tzu
A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution. -- Scott Hahn
No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will.. -- Bruce C. Hafen
Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you. -- Henry B. Eyring
Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living. -- Kay Arthur
We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity. -- Carl F. H. Henry
Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life. -- Laozi
The law is about you looking at yourself. The new covenant is all about you seeing Jesus. -- Joseph Prince
The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant. -- Thomas Carlyle
A covenant is an agreement between God and man, an accord whose terms are set by God. -- D. Todd Christofferson
This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it. -- Charles Spurgeon
After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant. -- William Henry Maule
Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it. -- N. T. Wright
Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet. -- Lenore Kandel
Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good. -- John Piper
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them. -- Watchman Nee
Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church -- John Piper
Service is an imperative for those who worship Jesus Christ and a covenant obligation of those who belong to his Church. -- Dallin H. Oaks
This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And to help one another. -- James Vila Blake
Everyone has a covenant and a purpose which is special, and if you do not fulfill it, - there is no one else who will. -- Glenda Green
Join a company of young men and women who have made a covenant by sacrifice to turn a nation through united massive fasting and prayer. -- Lou Engle
We each have a covenant responsibility to be sensitive to the needs of others and serve as the Savior did-to reach out, bless, and uplift those around us. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant. -- George Washington
Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God. -- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
The Israelites frequently forsook God, and he as frequently forsook them. But when they repented and returned to him, he remembered his covenant and delivered them from their distresses. -- Adoniram Judson
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 Boston
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
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
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, tresspass and Babylon and covenant. -- Penelope Lively
No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression? -- John Green
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 Sibbes
This [health care reform] cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. -- Michele Bachmann
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
Creation exists to be a place for the covenant that God wants to make with man. The goal of creation is the covenant, the love story of God and man. -- Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
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
Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves . . . . are components of the gospel, not the workings or fruits of the law. -- Herman Bavinck
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
We've been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we'll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another. -- Matt Chandler
We are daughters of our Heavenly Father. We are covenant-making women of all ages walking the path of mortality back to His presence. Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, and empowers us. -- Rosemary M. Wixom
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This covenant energy holds and mirrors the pact that we have made of self-fulfillment for ourselves in this lifetime, and that covenant energy holds the full reflection of our promise within its framework. -- Christine McCormick Day
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
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. -- George Bernard Shaw
I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations, protecting against the idolatry of any human claim to absolute truth or authority. -- James Luther Adams

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