Covenant Relationship Quotes

No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.

If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God's law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Jesus Christ is the light and the life of the world. If we do not choose to move toward Him, we will find that we have moved away ... Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah.

The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.

How odd Of God To choose The Jews

Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity.

Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and celebrated like the sudden meeting of friends, exciting and worthwhile though that is, but thought through and relished, planned and prepared -- an ultimately better way for the relationship to grow and at the same time a way of demonstrating what the relationship is all about.

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

The transcendent gift of the Holy Ghost, along with membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is bestowed by confirmation, by the laying on of hands by those having priesthood authority.

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.

There is a spiritual Israel and a natural Israel. God is committed to both. Neither replaces the other.

Every convert is a son or daughter of God.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.

The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.

Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave.