Quotes About The Old Testament

#1. Give your false prophet a message for me. Tell him Jesus befriended the whores and the thieves and the sinners. Tell him his Old Testament God is dead. God doesn't punish the wicked and save the righteous. God is love.

Jennifer Bosworth

#2. We can't fully appreciate the sweetness of the New Testament without the savory of the Old Testament.

Jen Wilkin

#3. If you have the Old Testament at home, if you flip the corner pages, you can see Jesus riding a horse.

Gilbert Gottfried

#4. The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament.

George Carlin

#5. We can always be sure of one thing - that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. When he heard his father call out for Abel and he saw his borther go forth, it made him feel like he was nothing. He couldn't even say that he felt like Cain anymore. One could not feel like Cain because it had no flavor. Cain was the absence of flavor. Cain was like saliva or a Wednesday.

Jonathan Goldstein

#7. The number of authors in the Old Testament suggests that it is a community document, almost like a Wikipedia article.

Tripp York

#8. The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And Mohammed said "I have been made victorious through terror.".

Pamela Geller

#9. There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges.

Tony Campolo

#10. Many times in the Old Testament, God refers to human beings as His beloved. But when God called Jesus His beloved, Jesus did something truly remarkable: He believed Him. And He lived every moment of His life fully convinced of His identity.

Jonathan Martin

#11. In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

Rick Warren

#12. The only words worth repeating are from the Old Testament or Oscar Wilde.

Barry Gifford

#13. If God rewards us on earth for good deeds - the Old Testament suggests it's so, and the Puritans certainly believed it - then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Stephen King

#14. Most people know that 30 to 40 percent of the world's Jews were killed during World War II, but not that 80 to 90 percent of the Orthodox community perished, among them many who had kept alive an ancient tradition of mysticism and meditation reaching back to the Old Testament world of the prophets.

Diane Ackerman

#15. The Old Testament is actually pretty raunchy. You might enjoy it.

Nicki Elson

#16. That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

#17. The First Testament gives the baseline meaning to the gospel in the promise of God that will not be thwarted by anyone or anything. The New Testament gives us the fulfillment in the form of a person. These testaments are meant to be read in parallel, allowing each testament to illuminate the other.

Tobin Wilson

#18. Salvation is the work of God planned in eternity, communicated by the prophets in the Old Testament and fulfilled in Christ; all of which the apostles bear witness to and the angels long to look into these things.

Jonah Books

#19. Entering the house of God to dwell with God, beholding, glorifying and enjoying him eternally, I suggest, is the story of the Bible, the plot that makes sense of the various acts, persons and places of its pages, the deepest context for its doctrines.

L. Michael Morales

#20. I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people and the birth of Christianity.

Robert Littell

#21. There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty and revenge, unless it be the New Testament, which arms its God with hell, and extends his outrages throughout all eternity!

Helen H. Gardener

#22. It was not necessary and might even have been disadvantageous for a government to claim a direct personal commission and communion of the kind God had given some rulers in the Old Testament. A working government might need the support of the Church but not of God Himself in a voice from on high.

Edmund Morgan

#23. What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which God prescribed the death penalty in the Old Testament?

Billy Graham

#24. Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.

Timothy Keller

#25. There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.

Christopher Hitchens

#26. Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament.

Ruben Martinez

#27. Any suggestion that God has returned to his Old Testament theocratic mode of operation - as in raising up America as a uniquely favored nation - is not only unwarranted, it is a direct assault on the distinct holiness of Jesus Christ and the kingdom he died to establish.

Gregory A. Boyd

#28. Have you noticed the words which Old Testament people use when someone important calls them by name? They don't say "What?" or "Yes?" They answer with the curious sentence, "Here I am". So much is in that sentence: readiness to respond, a willing servitude, an offering of oneself to the other.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#29. Had it been in the Old Testament Harry Potter would have been put to death.

Becky Fischer

#30. Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

Susie Bright

#31. We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.

Alistair Begg

#32. In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

Charlie Chaplin

#33. Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

Bill Maher

#34. The stupa is a white dome with a conical stone tower emerging from its center. There are two eyes painted on the tower, the all seeing eyes of Buddha. They're purple, and look a little sinister, like an Old Testament Buddha.

Joshua Isard

#35. Well, I'll stick to the Old Testament, picking it to pieces usually doesn't upset people quite so much.

Robert A. Heinlein

#36. When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

Billy Bob Thornton

#37. There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

William F. Albright

#38. Torah is not merely a collection of prohibitions, rigid strictures and boring observances. Rather, it is a narrative of the blessings and promises of God initially offered to one person and family, but through which the whole world will ultimately be blessed.

Walter C. Kaiser Jr.

#39. First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.

Paul Ricoeur

#40. Yet, if the world were bettered by
My death or story left untold,
I would condemn myself to die
For misdemeanours manifold:
I bring no harm to young or old
Alive or dead, in either case:
A man so needy never rolled
A mountain from its resting place.

Francois Villon

#41. The President said that Gold told him to invade Iraq. You see that's what happens when you mix New Testament and Old Milwaukee.

Bill Maher

#42. The Old Testament may not seem relevant to us today - but it is, because it is part of God's Holy Word, and He has much to teach us through its pages.

Billy Graham

#43. People in the United States, including me, are naturally inclined to support Israel. I'm an evangelical Christian who teaches the Bible every Sunday at my church. I teach half the Old Testament and half the New Testament. We Americans identify the Hebrews, the Israelites, with ourselves.

Jimmy Carter

#44. Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the Old Testament is there to point us to our Savior.

Martin Luther

#45. For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across the nation as well as the world are offended by Bill O'Reilly claiming he's an Irish Catholic.

Stephen Bennett

#46. The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament.

Thomas Paine

#47. It is of great importance for a student of Old Testament theology to notice that in every period of the discipline, the questions, methods, and possibilities in which study is cast arise from the sociointellectual climate in which the work must be done.
(p. 11)

Walter Brueggemann

#48. Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

David Harsanyi

#49. If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.

Andy Stanley

#50. Lamentations' testimony is bitter, raw, and largely unhealed. Its poems use 'wounded words' to illumine pain and resist God's acts in the world.

Kathleen M. O'Connor

#51. The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.

Philip Yancey

#52. You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament.

Steven Wright

#53. The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

Edith Hamilton

#54. My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.

Ziggy Marley

#55. One of the most important things God wants to teach us from the Old Testament is how not to live.

Billy Graham

#56. This is Ahab, that's Jezebel," said Evie, who was one of those who name animals after the less successful characters of Old Testament history.

E. M. Forster

#57. Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side ... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.

Saint Augustine

#58. God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New
the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

Mark Twain

#59. The difference between the old Testament and the new testament is that God doesn't want sacrifices anymore

Sunday Adelaja

#60. I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

Bono

#61. The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan's captive power. When He led the Old Testament saints from paradise to heaven, He led captivity captive!

Leon Morris

#62. Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.

D. A. Carson

#63. The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.

N. T. Wright

#64. In the beginnings, God Mother separates the earth from the heavens.

Stefan Emunds

#65. But after eating his one-thousandth sinner, Bob became prideful of his accomplishments, and that angered God."
"Why would that anger God?"
"This was the Old Testament. God got pissed off a lot. Didn't you ever read Job?

J.A. Konrath

#66. Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.

John Eldredge

#67. I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

George Eliot

#68. The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

William Blake

#69. I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.

Matisyahu

#70. The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it is, in my opinion, historical. As to the fabulous element in the Old Testament, I very much doubt if you would be wise to chuck it out.

C.S. Lewis

#71. Daniel 12:3 ... and those who turn the many to righteousness will shine the stars forever.

Craig W. Dressler

#72. 'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

Tariq Ali

#73. The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they might be related to one another in ways frowned on by the Old Testament.

Sebastian Faulks

#74. Do you not know that the God of the Old Testament orders the Jews to consume and enslave the peoples of the earth?

Julius Streicher

#75. If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#76. Thus the Old Testament prophets, Jesus himself, and his apostles all attribute the divine power in his (Jesus) ministry not to the uniqueness of his deity, but rather to the ministry of the Holy Spirit through him.

Jack Deere

#77. I regard the Bible, especially the Old Testament, the same as I do most other ancient books, in which there is some truth, a great deal of error, considerable barbarism and a most plentiful lack of good sense.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#78. The Old Testament contains over 300 references to the Messiah that were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Computations using the science of probability on just 8 of these prophecies show the chance that someone could have fulfilled all 8 prophecies is 10 (to the 17th power), or 1 in 100 quadrillion.

Fritz Ridenour

#79. Angels are spirit beings who are mentioned more than 250 times in both the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible.

Mary C. Neal

#80. The past doesn't change, does it?"
"It's still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.

Paul McAuley

#81. The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

Aleister Crowley

#82. No one pretends that Shakespeare was (divinely) inspired, and yet all the writers of the books of the Old Testament put together, could not have produced Hamlet.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#83. Jesus and Paul knew the Old Testament completely. Their comments about divorce were meant to add to, not replace or change, what was already written in the Old Testament about marriage and divorce.

Caroline Abbott

#84. Smith, for example, claimed that if Americans defended slavery on the basis of the Old Testament, they should also defend practices like polygamy and the complete annihilation of defeated armies that are also prescribed in the Old Testament

Mark A. Noll

#85. Today's events are reminiscent of the Old Testament story of how the Israelites demanded a king over God's objection. They believed that a king would give them peace and security. The results proved otherwise.

Ron Paul

#86. Others, and so on. And anything that is opposed to God in our lives is actually one of the many gods of the kingdom of earth. You will always be running scared if you worship other gods, because idols can't deliver on their promises. In the Old Testament, the choice before

Edward T. Welch

#87. Why does the Old Testament law never punish anyone by depriving him of his freedom?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#88. My mother turned out to be a Biblical Myth; from that part of the Old Testament where God gets really angry.

Simon R. Green

#89. As for diet, there is no biblical diet that is required for God's people today as there was in the Old Testament.

David Cloud

#90. The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation of civic freedom ... the Old Testament was harsh on criminals because it was soft on victims.

Gary North

#91. Everyone will have noticed how the Old Testament seems at times to ignore our conception of the individual.

C.S. Lewis

#92. It is no coincidence that Christian fundamentalist movements worldwide seek a return to Old Testament laws - because they fundamentally reject Christ as the New Covenant - which replaced all that.

They are not Christians - they are Leviticans.

Christina Engela

#93. The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the sons of men. The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#94. Be still, O little one, for I am Death. Another cobra had said that, in something else by Kipling. The cobras in his stories were heartless but they spoke beautifully, like wicked kings in the Old Testament.

Donna Tartt

#95. The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God.

G.K. Chesterton

#96. He'd sit and listen to Nana's Jesus stories all day, but when she turned to the Old Testament prophets, Louis Valentine's little face would darken. He said, I hate it when God is mean!

Donald McCaig

#97. God created places and things in the Old Testament to teach us about Jesus in the New Testament. These pictures are so simple, even a child can understand them. God graciously babbled at us so we can learn complex truths.

Todd Friel

#98. Job learned about the vanity of this world by losing it all; the Teacher {Qoheleth} saw it by having it all." (The Message of the Old Testament, p. 536)

Mark Dever

#99. As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod and spoil the child." No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it does not stretch far enough to include the image of a cool dude like Jesus taking a rod to a kid.

Chris Crutcher

#100. Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies

Kenneth Copeland