Quotes about Contract
A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.
— Myles Munroe
Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.
— Myles Munroe
A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.
— Scott Hahn
And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
— Genesis 30:28
Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”
— Genesis 31:44
Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
— Edmund Burke
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— Samuel Johnson
What the Bible offers is not a "works contract," but a covenant of vocation. The vocation in question is that of being a genuine human being, with genuinely human tasks to perform as part of the Creator's purpose for his world.
— NT Wright
For example, a good deal of what appears as generous philanthropy is really the fruit of prideful self-love disguised as generosity and reaching out for the validation of public approval and social esteem—and in the process creating enormous social benefits.12 It "gives to get" as a matter of an unspoken contract, rather than "giving because given to," which is the expression of true charity.
— Os Guinness
Marriage is sacred. It was created to be the wedding portrait of Christ and His Bride hung over the blazing fireplace of judgment. A match made in Heaven, a contract signed in blood.
— Beth Moore
The passage has regularly been read as the vital move in the wrong story— the story, once again, of a "works contract" in which, to put it crudely, humans sin, God punishes Jesus, and humans are let off. This omits elements that were vital for Paul
— NT Wright
There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car.
— Mike Huckabee