Covenant quotes
86 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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 imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right."
"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."
"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."
"The law is about you looking at yourself. The new covenant is all about you seeing Jesus."
"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."
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"This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And to help one another."
"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 blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it . . ."
"The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant."
"Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life."
"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."
"Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at."
"No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love."
"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."
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."
"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?"
