Covenant Quotes - Page 7

• No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Higher, Oath

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.413, Library of America

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• Covenants without swords are but words.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Weapons

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• Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, Art Of War, Plot

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.25, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• The ultimate end of all activity in the Church is to see a husband and his wife and their children happy at home, protected by the principles and laws of the gospel, sealed safely in the covenants of the everlasting priesthood. Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Children, Husband, Home

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• Regardless of our individual circumstances, we can all enjoy the full blessings of priesthood power through keeping the covenants we have made at baptism and in the temple.

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Blessing, Baptism, Temples

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• Be we reminded that the gathering of Israel is not the ultimate endpoint. It is but the beginning. The true endpoint is eternal life. It is that God’s children, in a covenant relationship with Him either by lineage or by adoption, will be able to dwell with Him and their families forever. That is God’s glory-eternal life for His children!

  Russell M. Nelson

  Children, Israel, Adoption

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Who God Is

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• Mothers Who Know Honor God They bring daughters in clean and ironed dresses with hair brushed to perfection; their sons wear white shirts and ties and have missionary haircuts. These mothers know they are going to sacrament meeting, where covenants are renewed. These mothers have made and honor temple covenants. They know that if they are not pointing their children to the temple, they are not pointing them toward desired eternal goals. These mothers have influence and power.

  Julie B. Beck

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Integrity, Trustworthiness, Incapable

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• You are never lost when you can see the temple. The temple will provide direction for you and your family in a world filled with chaos. It is an eternal guidepost which will help you from getting lost in the 'mist of darkness.' It is the 'House of the Lord.' It is a place where covenants are made and eternal ordinances are performed.

  Gary E. Stevenson

  House, Darkness, Temples

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• There are many locks in my house and all with different keys, but I have one master-key which opens them all. The Lord has many treasures and secrets all shut up from carnal minds with locks which they cannot open. But he who walks in fellowship with Jesus possesses the master-key which will open to him all the blessings of the covenant and even the very heart of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Blessing

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• God Most High has said, "Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue?" . . . Know, O man, that the covenant of servanthood is incumbent upon you, and that the covenant of Lordship is incumbent upon His magnanimity, as He Most High has said, ". . . and fulfill your covenant, I shall fulfill My covenant."

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Men, Rewards, Virtue

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• In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna-a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night-to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Night, People, Choices

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

  Jean A. Stevens

  Covenant With God, Helping, God Help Us

  "Mormon Feminists Surprised By New Wording Referring To Women As ‘Blessed Disciples Of Jesus’" by Peggy Fletcher Stack, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2014.

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• And so we understand that the atonement of Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to overcome spiritual death that results from sin, and, through making and keeping sacred covenants, to have the blessings of eternal life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Jesus, Blessing

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• It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Inspiration, Apology, Challenges

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• 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

  Covenant With God, Example, Inheritance

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• Melchizedek Priesthood holders who are fathers in sealed families have been taught what they must do. There is nothing that has come or will come into your family as important as the sealing blessings. There is nothing more important than honoring the marriage and family covenants you have made or will make in the temples of God.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Father, Blessing, Important

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• When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we've always had, What eagle look your face still shows, While up from my heart's root So great a sweetness flows I shake from head to foot.

  P. C. Cast

  Heart, Blessing, Eagles

  P.C. Cast (2016). “Divine By Mistake”, p.171, Harlequin

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• ["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Cutting, Weather

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• "Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?"
  Absently he replied, "I was, once."
  "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?"
  "I live."
  "Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more - with one word you will make me weep."

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Sea, Two, Three

  "Lord Foul's Bane: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One". Book by Stephen Donaldson, 2013.

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• You swore to stay with me,” he said. “When we made our oath, as parabatai. Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.” “We are two people,” said Jem. “Two people with a covenant between us.” Will knew he sounded like a child, but he could not help it. “A covenant that says you must not go where I cannot come with you.” “Until death,” Jem replied gently. “Those are the words of the oath. ‘Until aught but death part thee and me.’ Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Thinking, Two

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• 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. For the right men have by Nature to protect themselves, when none else can protect them, can by no Covenant be relinquished. ... [The right] to defend ourselves [is the] summe of the Right of Nature.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Void, Force

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• 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

  Sight, Add, Unlawful

  Thomas Hobbes (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.130

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• Charles Haddon Spurgeon said that the old covenant was a convenant of prosperity, and the new convenient is a covenant of adversity, whereby we're being weaned from the present world and made meek for the world to come.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Adversity, Spurgeon, World

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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