In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.
If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God's law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.
One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.
A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.
As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
Because Judaism and Christianity are both covenantal religions, the relationship of the individual Jew or Christian to God is always within covenanted community.
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.
When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.
At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.