Top 100 Quotes About Testament
#1. Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.
Henry B. Eyring
#2. YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN A MIX OF TRIUMPHS AND TOILS, CHALLENGES AND TESTS, AND YOU HAVE BEEN FOUND WORTHY. YOUR FAITH IN ME AND YOUR LOVING HEART ARE A TESTAMENT TO MY PEOPLE.
'Thank you, my God.'
COME, BE WITH ME. SIT WITH ME AT MY TABLE; JOIN ME IN RAPTURE. AND BRING YOUR CUTE FRIEND TOO.
Daniel Keidl
#3. Scars a testament to your bravery, not a symbol of weakness or inferiority.
Dannika Dark
#4. We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.
William Sloane Coffin
#5. The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty ... The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.
Samuel Adams
#6. The New Testament views the church
rather than marriage
as the primary place where human love is best expressed and experienced.
Wesley Hill
#7. All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.
Mark Kingwell
#8. The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep and cattle, and spirits of caves and wells, of whom the Old Testament, tending towards its higher ideal, gives fragmentary but convincing evidence.
James T. Shotwell
#9. With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrection and ascension of Christ, any person who could tell a story of an apparition, or of a man's walking, could have made such books; for the story is most wretchedly told.
Thomas Paine
#10. So Artichoke was a restaurant borne out of impulse and recklessness. Four years on, it's also a testament to how an enterprise started on such a fucked up approach can actually succeed.
Bjorn Shen
#11. The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.
Bruce Kent
#12. Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.
John Strachan
#13. Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?
Gene Fowler
#14. She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.
Nora Roberts
#15. the term "Land of Israel" was a later Christian and rabbinical invention that was theological, and by no means political in nature. Indeed, we can cautiously posit that the name first appeared in the New Testament in the Gospel of Matthew.
Shlomo Sand
#16. The gospels were, in fact, written anywhere from forty to a hundred years after Jesus, and their authors attempted to demonstrate that Jesus could be seen to fulfill various Old Testament pronouncements.
Jay Parini
#17. The Lord Himself is the one standard of conduct and character in the New Testament. People do not object to a man or a woman becoming outwardly holy, but they do object to his or her becoming a personal devotee of Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers
#18. The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically , as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.
Northrop Frye
#19. Know that you are part of a joyful Universe. Allow your romantic, ecstatic, blissful emotions to appear more frequently in your daily life. When you feel joy, experience it and express it! As the New Testament says, 'Joy is the fruit of the Spirit.'
Wayne Dyer
#20. But the Spirit was not limited to doing surprising and extraordinary things. He was present in the Old Testament period in giving civil rule and government ... moral virtues ... physical strength ... and intellectual abilities.
John Owen
#21. May God deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament and talks against the Old!
D.L. Moody
#22. Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy - and that this has begun to be fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus.
N. T. Wright
#23. Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.
Robert A. Burton
#24. I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.
Leo Tolstoy
#25. Beware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God: God is so kind and loving that of course He will forgive us. That thought, based solely on emotion, cannot be found anywhere in the New Testament. The only basis on which God can forgive us is the tremendous tragedy of the Cross of Christ.
Oswald Chambers
#26. 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
#27. The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.
David Platt
#28. America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.
Nick Rahall
#29. Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said, where there is no vision the people perish. But it is precisely because an ideal is necessary to man that the man without ideals is in permanent danger of fanaticism.
G.K. Chesterton
#30. Some things make me emotional in a good way. When my son does well in school, I get real emotional because that's a testament to what I'm feeding him at home on a daily basis as far as knowledge goes. I wasn't so emotional until I had my first son.
Monica
#31. There is a tension in the Bible between justice and mercy, between the Old Testament and the New Testament. And the New Testament says you can never be good enough: goodness is the thing, and you can never live up to it. The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.
Paul Kalanithi
#32. Meanwhile, Singapore has implemented an Electronic Road Pricing System that has virtually eliminated congestion. Americans collectively spend over one hundred billion hours stuck in traffic jams, a testament to the fact that road pricing is not yet widely adopted.
Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
#33. Rome changed the New Testament catholicity (which purifies and sanctifies as it's proper domain the whole of life) and has substituted in its place a dualism which separates the supernatural from the natural.
Henry R. Van Til
#34. Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered fig trees, Isaiah withered a fig tree, and there's another place in the Old Testament - I think it-s in Psalms - where a fig tree was withered. God hates figs, not fags!
Thom Hartmann
#35. As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.
Augustus De Morgan
#36. The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places
to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.
Olympia Brown
#37. In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
Tullian Tchividjian
#38. The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.
Mark Galli
#39. It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
William Barclay
#40. The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
J.I. Packer
#41. The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'
Philip Schaff
#42. 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
#43. This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
J.I. Packer
#44. The issue of motherhood is no longer salient. In fact, the very first female bomber for Hamas posed in her last will and testament video with her two kids.
Mia Bloom
#45. According to the New Testament, the church is primarily a body of people who profess and give evidence that they have been saved by God's grace alone, for His glory alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
Mark Dever
#46. As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
Abdullah Of Saudi Arabia
#47. Amy likes to play God when she's not happy. Old Testament God.
Gillian Flynn
#48. I am joining the more than 200,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments ... I am inspired by the brave women who have faced this battle before me and grateful for the support of family and friends.
Sheryl Crow
#49. He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.
Tom Hayden
#50. The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.
Saint Augustine
#51. The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#52. John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.
Leonard Ravenhill
#53. You know, in some ways, the celibacy tradition goes back to the tribe of Levi and, certainly, sacrifice and the notion of sacrifice. In the Old Testament, the shedding of blood was for a man to perform. It was not for the woman, who gave life.
Vincent Nichols
#54. In Genesis, and indeed for much of the Old Testament, the controlling image for death is exile. Adam and Eve were told that they would die on the day they ate the fruit; what actually happened was that they were
N. T. Wright
#55. OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life.
Marjorie Dannenfelser
#56. You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics
Jeri Massi
#57. The human authors and editors of the Old Testament brought their own experiences and presuppositions to the task of writing. We don't often think about this when we read the Bible.
Adam Hamilton
#58. The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job
John A. Keel
#59. Old Testament prophets. 'You savvy dis fetish thing?
William Boyd
#60. We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries
Thomas Paine
#61. The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.
Lysander Spooner
#62. The Old Testament cannot give us a total revelation of God by itself. We need the New Testament to understand the full revelation.
Paul Silway
#63. The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to place political speech beyond the government's control, and we can be glad that it did.
Bradley A. Smith
#64. At that time, she had worn the scarf as a testament to her faith. Her decision was a voluntary act. When the revolution forced the scarf on others, her action became meaningless.
Azar Nafisi
#65. Almost any poll of regular churchgoers will reveal that their favorite book in the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It is the book that is most often used at Christian funerals.
John Shelby Spong
#66. If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
Steve Allen
#67. Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.
John Clayton
#68. Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.
Vance Havner
#69. Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
Tony Campolo
#70. Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We're all cremated equal. We're insufferable friends. I've been working my head to the bone.
Goodman Ace
#71. There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
Vance Havner
#72. I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful.
Daunte Culpepper
#73. Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident ... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.
Elizabeth Edwards
#74. All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
Ray Bradbury
#75. So where should we trace our doctrine? To the New Testament, and only there. And even this statement must be qualified. We should trace our doctrine to that which the New Testament lays down as a teaching or practice
William E. Cox
#76. The fear of loss is an engine of horrors, but also a source of the greatest forms of heroism. There's not a lot of art that puts that in bold letters. It's psychologically very interesting and acute, I think. That's not the central reading, I think, of the New Testament.
Cass Sunstein
#77. The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
R.C. Sproul
#78. I am confident that many people will find the New Testament alive in a new way after reading The Message.
Jay Kesler
#79. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper is the renewal of the covenant: "this is my blood of the new testament" (or covenant), so that the sacrament itself re-establishes the law, this time with a new elect group
Anonymous
#80. The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth - Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.
Joseph McCabe
#81. The New Testament calls this "the peace that passes understanding," because it goes beyond thinking - no amount of mental churning will get you there.
Deepak Chopra
#82. It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?
Randall Terry
#83. The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.
H.L. Mencken
#84. Richard [Carrier] takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history. This is a position that is so extreme that to call it marginal would be an understatement; it doesn't even appear on the map of contemporary New Testament scholarship.
William Lane Craig
#85. the American church is a difficult place to fit in if you want to live out New Testament Christianity.
Francis Chan
#86. It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors.
Dean Alford
#87. Pippin was crowned the first king of the Carolingian dynasty in the city of Soissons, in a brand-new sacred ceremony that involved anointing with holy oil in the manner of an Old Testament theocratic king.*
Susan Wise Bauer
#88. Shit," I thought to myself, "I'm going to be late to New Testament class.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#89. And I told him, if I am so hard to love, then let me run wild.
My love is not a testament to my surrender. I will show you just how much I love you, with the inward draw of every breath - the collective sigh of the world and all its despair. But I will never give you what you want in chains.
Lang Leav
#90. We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament.
Adrian McKinty
#91. A meticulous ethnological testament holds that whatever we subsist upon molds us. Another often-repeated axiom holds that at midlife every person has the face that he or she deserves.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#92. The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but with respect to the understanding of existence that expresses itself in them.
Rudolf Bultmann
#93. We celebrate, we create, as citizens of Shatter. We hold a bond of unending happiness. This planet, at the edge of the galaxy, is our testament to life.
Our dragons, in the sky, came from the stars. They brought many new things to explore.
From the Blessings of the Father Dragon, a poem
L'Poni Baldwin
#94. The New Testament never tells us to build a place for people to come to us; instead, the New Testament commands us to give our lives going to people.
David Platt
#95. Every incident in the Old Testament was considered to pre-figure in allegory what was to come in the New.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#97. New Testament Christians were most known by their love for their neighbors, but today we are most known for our segregation of the lowly.
Jefferson Bethke
#98. Mythos is the sum total of the early historic and prehistoric myths which preceded the logos. The mythos includes not only the Greek myths but the Old Testament, the Vedic Hymns and the early legends of all cultures which have contributed to our present world understanding.
Robert M. Pirsig
#99. The Bible tells us that the small groups in New Testament times pursued the biblical purposes of fellowship, discipleship, ministry, evangelism, and worship.
Steve Gladen
#100. Remember Motown? Not just the driving music that swept the nation and the world, but the vibrant energy of the Motor City itself, symbolizing the heyday of America. Today, a derelict Detroit is testament to what America has squandered and what it has become.
Gerald Celente
