New Testament Gospels Quotes

#1. The entire life and work of Jesus is one great argument why we should listen to his word. Page after page of the New Testament Gospels pile up reasons to turn off the television and listen to Jesus.

John Piper

#2. New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#3. The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren't that interested in whether Jesus was real.

Richard Dawkins

#4. I will begin with the self-styled "Christian" party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.

F.H. Bradley

#5. Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

Ernie Pyle

#6. I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

Raymond Moody

#7. A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

George Berkeley

#8. Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.

John Gould

#9. The synoptic Gospels of the New Testament manuscripts make us aware of Christ's character and gives us a view of the 'son-ship' He modeled which flowed out of that Divine character."


~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#10. I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.

Moby

#11. The grass on the other side of the hill may well be greener, but you should always check that there isn't something with teeth and claws crouching in it.

Chris I. Naylor

#12. Although the gospels of the New Testament
like those discovered at Nag Hammadi
are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them.

Elaine Pagels

#13. For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.

Elaine Pagels

#14. Without worship, we go about miserable.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#15. I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

Lee Ann Womack

#16. There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don't see any evidence that he knew what was in the Gospels, or the letters of Paul, which I don't think he would have liked at all.

Elaine Pagels

#17. Trust me, I've wanted to punch you in the face a time or five.

Mariana Zapata

#18. Injil: The book that Muslims believe Allah sent to Jesus, often considered to be the gospels of the New Testament

Nabeel Qureshi

#19. Take off that darn fur coat! ... Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#20. Strange, she thinks, how vulnerable the back of your neck feels when you listen to silence.

Glenn Haybittle

#21. In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah's history written in advance in story form.

Eli Of Kittim

#22. I'm creating my niche. My niche is going to be "shirtless guy."

Dave Bautista

#23. Take away the stories of Jesus's birth, and all you lose is four chapters of the Gospels. Take away the resurrection and you lose the entire New Testament, and most of the second-century fathers as well.

N. T. Wright

#24. I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.

Martin O'Malley

#25. Be to her virtues very kind,
Be to her faults a little blind.

Matthew Prior

#26. Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels.

Jay Parini

#27. Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.

Robert M. Price

#28. In America, we're allowed to play ONE role, the eunuch who can count.

Eddie Huang

#29. The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

Philip Yancey

#30. In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus' resurrection is closely linked to our own ultimate resurrection, which isn't life after death - it's life after life after death.

N. T. Wright

#31. Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

George Eliot