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Letter "C" » covenant
«To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
covenant, guarantee, perceived, sovereign, sweetest
«The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
agreement, compact, compacted, covenant, covenanted, covenants, in the north, North, North A, North and South, North by, South, the North, the South, to the north
«Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: / I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; / To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
bring out, covenant, Gentiles, in darkness, prisoners, prison house, The Prison
«Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.»
«Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
covenant, covenants, divine service, ordinances, sanctuary, verily, worldly
«When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; / Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: / To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; / Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; / Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; / Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: / To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; / Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
covenant, crooked, discretion, froward, The Covenant, The Guide, The Strange, The Stranger, uprightness, walk in
«Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; / With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: / But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.»
«And when We made a covenant with the children of Israel: You shall not serve any but Allah and (you shall do) good to (your) parents, and to the near of kin and to the orphans and the needy, and you shall speak to men good words and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate. Then you turned back except a few of you and (now too) you turn aside.»
«The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Danger
| Keywords:
bonds, covenant, covenanted, covenants, darken
«The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
ark, ark of the covenant, covenant, covenanted, covenants, The Covenant, vulgarism
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