Top 100 Quotes About The New Testament
#1. We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#2. The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.
Miroslav Volf
#3. The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
Charles Dickens
#4. The Christian must abstain from sin. It is as simple and direct as that. You have no right to say, 'I am weak, I cannot, and temptation is very powerful.' The answer of the New Testament is, Stop doing it!
Martyn
#5. Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction
this is the New Testament method, and the true one.
J.G. Holland
#6. The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament, in the light of the new revelation given by Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Gary North
#7. The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.
John Hagee
#8. The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus
in other words, by the end of the first century at the latest
though most scholars would put most of them earlier than that.
N. T. Wright
#9. It is fair to say the New Testament is the most ethically sophisticated of the great scriptures; the proper comparison for the Qur'an is with the Old Testament - against which it holds its own.
Sebastian Faulks
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors.
Dean Alford
#14. 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
#15. One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.
Steve Allen
#16. To paraphrase Paul from the New Testament, he has a great soliloquy about love, where he's basically saying, if I've figured out the secrets of the universe but I don't have love, figuring out the secrets of universe means nothing.
Moby
#17. My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.
Max Lucado
#18. If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as 'Master of Chaos' and the New Testament as 'The Thing With Three Souls.
Terry Carr
#19. The New Testament Scriptures are full of references to the malice of the devil, but we generally overlook them. I think this is because our idea of salvation is that Christ died on the cross to pay His Father the debt for our sins.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#20. Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
John Nelson Darby
#21. The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.
Matthew Arnold
#22. Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.
Josh McDowell
#23. The New Testament never uses the expression 'help' of the grace of God in the soul. We have absolutely no power - God is not to help us, because we are weak: no, He is to give His life and His power in us as entirely impotent. He that discerns this aright will learn to live by faith alone.
Andrew Murray
#24. The crowds were just crying out, "Crucify him, crucify him" with unified rage and intent. And in the backdrop of this rejection of the Son of God, the New Testament Church was beginning to form and write letters to encourage each other in the faith.
Greg Gordon
#25. The New Testament says the Word became flesh. Sacramental theology is all about discovering, in fear and trembling, how to allow that Word to go on becoming flesh.
N. T. Wright
#26. The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.
C.S. Lewis
#27. Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how he acts-make his world your rule, and his conduct your example.
Charlotte Bronte
#28. The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.
John Shelby Spong
#29. 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
#30. I am confident that many people will find the New Testament alive in a new way after reading The Message.
Jay Kesler
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.
Saint Augustine
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
J.I. Packer
#44. It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
William Barclay
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.
David Platt
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. May God deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament and talks against the Old!
D.L. Moody
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.
John Strachan
#58. 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
#59. The New Testament views the church
rather than marriage
as the primary place where human love is best expressed and experienced.
Wesley Hill
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.
Leonard Ravenhill
#63. My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.
Ziggy Marley
#64. As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.
Lewis B. Smedes
#65. So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
Paul Ricoeur
#66. Then they ask, "Do you want Jesus to come into your heart?" Does it bother anyone that this formula or language is not found in the New Testament?
Paul Washer
#67. In English, for example, there have been over one hundred versions of the New Testament in the past century.
Thomas Holland
#68. In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in fact reliable."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#69. I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.
Anna Quindlen
#70. The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.
David Jeremiah
#71. The truth is that in all probability he (Jesus) never existed, but was created by the Jewish authors of the New Testament as a fantasy figure for the purpose of persuading gullible Gentiles to accept the revolutionary ideas that would be their undoing.
Christine M. Johns
#72. mastery of the OT is crucial to an understanding of the New Testament.
Eugene H. Merrill
#73. 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
#74. It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.
Alexander Whyte
#75. The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in Christianity. It is the creator of its new and brighter hopes, of its richer and stronger faith, of its deeper and more exalted experience.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#76. 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
#77. The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.
Terry Pratchett
#78. The whole account of baptism in the New Testament is plain and intelligible, and the state of this ordinance, during the lives of the apostles, is to be gathered mostly from the book of Acts, written by Luke, the first ecclesiastical historian.
David Benedict
#79. Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.
Henry David Thoreau
#80. The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
Vance Havner
#81. Mindful of the fact you live in an agricultural country, I presume you know what an ass is. We read in the New Testament that our blessed Lord rode on an ass in triumph into the city of Jerusalem. Today the Lord rides on another ass: I myself.
Richard Cushing
#82. From the experience of these years Dr. Lloyd-Jones was immovably confirmed in a truth which he had first seen in the New Testament. It was that evangelism is pre-eminently dependent upon the quality of the Christian life which is known and enjoyed in the church.
Iain H. Murray
#83. Against both of these temptations the New Testament warns us with its insistent call for a patient hope, a hope which is - on the one hand - confident and sure, an anchor of the soul, and on the other hand patient and enduring.
Lesslie Newbigin
#84. The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament.
Thomas Guthrie
#85. All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#86. I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child.
Woody Allen
#87. The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.
Johnny Appleseed
#88. In their effort to "guide" or maybe to control others, they try to balance the old law with the new freedom in Jesus. The Bible does not call it balance, it calls this mixture. Much of the New Testament is written about this mixture being taught in the church.
Timothy E. Pickering
#89. Repentance is mentioned seventy times in the New Testament ... the Bible says God commands repentance ... it is a command ...
God says, Repent! Or perish!
Billy Graham
#90. It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals.
Henry David Thoreau
#91. The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
Philip Schaff
#92. Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#93. The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.
Billy Graham
#94. The notion that we read the New Testament exactly as the early Christians did, without any weight of tradition coloring our interpretation, is an illusion. It is also a dangerous illusion, for it tends to absolutize our interpretation, confusing it with the Word of God.
Justo L. Gonzalez
#95. Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.
Michael Horton
#96. If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.
Lysander Spooner
#97. For the New Testament authors, Jesus' resurrection is not an isolated miracle, but a crucial revelatory disclosure concerning the nature of reality, the identity of God, and the destiny of human beings.
Stefan Alkier
#98. Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?
George Eliot
#99. The reason we fear to go out after dark is not that we may be set upon by bands of evangelicals and forced to read the New Testament, but that we may be set upon by gangs of feral young people who have been taught that nothing is superior to their own needs or feelings.
Philip Yancey
#100. There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.
F.F. Bruce
