Quotes about Covenant

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.

A wedding is a celebration of marriage, of an institution ordained by God at the creation of man, to be entered into with solemnity as well as with joy.

If you go into the old covenant, do you think that the Jewish people believe that you should be broke? They believe in wealth.

Abraham was extremely wealthy and he had a covenant with God. It's not the Jewish blessing, it's the Abrahamic blessing. I get excited talking about it 'cause I love it and I started out deep in debt with nothing. I had to learn this from the Bible and from my spiritual mentor Oral Roberts.

Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

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.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

We came to see that the Great Awakening was actually a reawakening of a deep national desire for the Covenant Way of life. This yearning did not die with the passing of the Puritan era, but only went dormant. It was a desire which would produce a new generation of clergymen who would help to prepare America to fight for her life.

The true sons of Abraham are not identified biologically, but Christologically.

In the words of the Puritan William Perkins, "The promises made to Abraham are first made to Christ, and then in Christ to all that believe in him."6

Salvation in Christ does not rest on a law that we inevitably break; it rests on a promise that God cannot break.

The call of the new covenant is the same as the old: in loving God, we give him our "all.