Quotes About Covenant With God

#1. We have a blood bought covenant with God that says we are His and He is ours. We are loved, and have a right to call to Him, call on Him and have His presence in our lives through worship, bible study and prayer - p. 14

Wanda L. Scott

#2. Just as Israel became the first fruits of the world by entering into covenant with God, Jesus incarnated into the most genuine fruition of his essential character.

James Mikolajczyk

#3. 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

#4. The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement.

Rumi

#5. United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.

Pope John Paul II

#6. Covenants with God help us to know who we really are.

Jean A. Stevens

#7. 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

Anonymous

#8. The moment we came into covenant relationship with God, His goodness was permanently pointed in our direction. God's favor is toward us, not away from us.

Kynan Bridges

#9. The church isn't a circle of friends, but the family of God. The covenant of grace connects generations, rooting them in that worshiping community with the "cloud of witnesses" in heaven as well as here and now (Heb 12:1).

Michael S. Horton

#10. For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.

Philip Yancey

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. When God made His covenant with Abraham, He promised that He would "make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky." Jesus is the needle who sews the children of God who are not direct descendants of Abraham into that nighttime sky.

Lauren F. Winner

#14. God will keep His promises to you as you honor your covenants with Him.

Carole M. Stephens

#15. A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Russell M. Nelson

#16. covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul; 2CH15.13 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God

Anonymous

#17. 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

#18. The inclusiveness of the invitation to be reconciled to God through Christ's work of Atonement- acknowledgement of who He is (God) and what He has done (Redemption)- aligns itself perfectly with the paradigm shift intrinsic to the New Covenant".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#19. 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

#20. The Psalter forms the great epic poem of the creator and covenant God who will at the last visit and redeem his people and, with them, his whole creation.

N. T. Wright

#21. God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ.

John Piper

#22. 4 He shall call to the heavens from above, And to the earth, that He may judge His people: 5 "Gather My saints together to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice." 6 Let the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is Judge.

Anonymous

#23. The covenant between Jews and God was conditional on their respect for human rights. The reason they were expelled from the land was that they were more interested in money and power and treated the poor and aliens with contempt.

Stephen Sizer

#24. 2The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3It was not with our fathers that the LORD made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today.

Anonymous

#25. The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it; if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath.

Thomas Hobbes

#26. 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.

Pope Benedict XVI

#27. 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

#28. Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more arguments on behalf of God; we need more people who live as if they are in covenant with Unconditional Love, which is our best definition of God. (p. 21)

Robin R. Meyers

#29. 24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25God saw the people of Israel - and God knew.

Anonymous

#30. When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children,

Julie B. Beck

#31. The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good.

Octavius Winslow

#32. So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Exodus 2:24

Beth Moore

#33. The financial game is a team sport. God established a covenant with Noah after the flood, and later he established a covenant with Abraham. A covenant is an agreement between two parties. In order to prosper, you must establish what I call a "carevenant" with your family

Celso Cukierkorn

#34. A covenant is a bond in blood sovereignly administered. When God enters into a covenantal relationship with men, he sovereignly institutes a life-and-death bond. A covenant is a bond in blood, or a bond of life and death, sovereignly administered.

O. Palmer Robertson

#35. Simplicity is the most sophisticated complexion and the reason why man begins with it, is because that is the instinct which she/he was born with. It is the mark of purity (contrary to Jew Covenant and Roman Baptism beliefs) which were given to her/him by God in the womb.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#36. Those that set God always before them and walk before him with all their hearts, shall find him as good as his word and better; he will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them.

Matthew Henry