Quotes about Oath
We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them. Joshua 9:19
- Beth Moore
The claims of Christ are always on trial, and we remain under oath! We are his witnesses for truth.
- Max Lucado
God is a witness that cannot be sworn.
- Samuel Beckett
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
- Samuel Johnson
As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.
- David Jeremiah
Christianity is related to a kingdom which is not of this world — and then the State receives an oath from teachers of Christianity, which oath signifies therefore that the man swears loyalty precisely to that which is the opposite to the State. Such an oath is a self-contradiction, like making a man swear by laying his hand upon the New Testament, where it is written, Thou shalt not swear.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Let's swear each with our pinky We'll be the best of friends Until we are old and wrinkly!
- Anonymous
But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
- Anonymous
In the Book of Genesis, God creates the world in six days and seals his covenant with humanity on the seventh. Because of this, the Hebrew verb used for swearing a covenant oath is, literally translated, "to seven oneself.
- Scott Hahn
I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
- John Bunyan
Avoid taking oaths.
- Epictetus
Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.
- AW Tozer