Testament Is Quotes

#1. Even the God of the New Testament is not as forgiving as the consumer credit system.

Neal Stephenson

#2. 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

#3. Peter preached about [the blood]. Paul wrote about it, and the redeemed in heaven sing about it. In a sense, the New Testament is the Book of the Blood.

Billy Graham

#4. 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

#5. Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. The New Testament is a manifestation of God in the flesh.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. The gospel, in the New Testament, is the good news that God (the world's creator) is at last becoming king and that Jesus, whom this God raised from the dead, is the world's true lord.

N. T. Wright

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

Nicki Elson

#9. In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

Benjamin Disraeli

#10. The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam's sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that he didn't exist.

Richard Dawkins

#11. Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion.

Terry Pratchett

#12. 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

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

Steven Wright

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

Edith Hamilton

#15. I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is especially important. What Jesus and his disciples preached and did was a great thing.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

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

Billy Graham

#17. Of course
the New Testament is very small.
Its mouth opens four times
as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster,
yet somehow man-made ...

Anne Sexton

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

Sunday Adelaja

#19. A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.

Orson Pratt

#20. The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

Susan Hill

#21. The New Testament is not a historical document.

Reza Aslan

#22. The word is a sort of deliverance from the shifting world of appearances. The central teaching of the New Testament is that those who accept the word acquire wisdom and at the same time some identification with the eternal.

Richard M. Weaver

#23. I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Harold Bloom

#24. The New Testament is peppered with "one another" reminders. While Scripture says to love another, encourage one another, offer hospitality to one another, be kind to one another, many people are content tolerating one another, if not ignoring one another.

Craig Groeschel

#25. One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand your identity and your union in Christ and to live that way.

Kevin DeYoung

#26. There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.

Steve Allen

#27. As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation.

William Law

#28. The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.

John Wycliffe

#29. Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.

Andre Simon

#30. One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their "gospel" doesn't even need it!

Scot McKnight

#31. The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

Charles Dickens

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

Steve Allen

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.

Saint Augustine

#39. The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.

David Platt

#40. The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

A.A. Milne

#41. Saint Augustine said that the New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old is revealed in the New.

Scott Hahn

#42. The Old Testament is the Gospel in the bud, the New Testament is the Gospel in full flower. The Old Testament is the Gospel in the blade; the New Testament is the Gospel in full ear.

John R.W. Stott

#43. Contrary to popular opinion, the Old Testament is not a single book with one unified view of who God is and how life works.

Anonymous

#44. The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

Joni Mitchell

#45. The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

Tom Baker

#46. Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is therefore called typology, though it is a typology in a special sense.

Northrop Frye

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

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

Tripp York

#53. 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

#54. It cannot be said too often that in the New Testament, the opposite of sin is not virtue, it is faith.

Robert Farrar Capon

#55. The American biblical scholar Bart Ehrman, in a book whose subtitle is The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why, unfolds the huge uncertainty befogging the New Testament texts.

Richard Dawkins

#56. The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think I am making a mistake by reading without support from educated people. After all, there is 2,000 years of scholarship about the book, they say, so it's perverse of me to ignore it.

David Plotz

#57. In life you'll face difficulties that postpone some of your dreams. Regardless, life goes fast by reminding us youth is finite and old age is stable. So you mustn't stop dreaming and running while your strength is yet tough.

Darmie Orem

#58. Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

Bei Dao

#59. We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.

Malcolm Turnbull

#60. The hair on your head affects people and is a testament to the world about who you are.
- Bonnie Foreshaw (Tabatha Rowley's story)

Wally Lamb

#61. 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

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#63. 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

#64. When Jesus comes to the earth in the New Testament, we are quickly introduced to him as an immigrant. Fleeing a brutal political situation in Bethlehem after he is born, Jesus' family travels to Egypt, where they live for years as sojourners in a foreign land.

David Platt

#65. There is heat in freezing ... be a testament!

Tanya Davis

#66. One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.

Vance Havner

#67. 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

#68. That it is not the Christianity of the New Testament which is in conflict with science, but the supposed Christianity of the modern liberal Church, and that the real city of God, and that city alone, has defences which are capable of warding off the assaults of modern unbelief. However,

J. Gresham Machen

#69. Otherwise, it would have been much easier to just shoot you and be done with it." I disagreed. The fact that I was still alive after so many combat tours was a testament to exactly how hard it is to "just shoot me and be done with it.

Rachel Bach

#70. The witness of which the New Testament passages speak is God's gift, not our accomplishment.

Lesslie Newbigin

#71. For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the New Testament and the Creeds. Try doubting something else.

C.S. Lewis

#72. Our ability to accept life's difficult offerings is a testament of our relationship with God.

Scott Hildreth

#73. 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

#74. But it is a historical fact that the Jews, and no one else, gave the world the Bible. It is a historical fact that the Jews introduced to the pagan world the idea of a God who demanded righteousness......Even most of the books of the New Testament were written by Jews.

Harold S. Kushner

#75. 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

#76. There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

Bill Vaughan

#77. 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

#78. Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning. I think you need somebody to love and take care of, and someone who loves you back. In that sense, I think the New Testament got it right. So did the Beatles. Without love, nothing has any meaning.

Dick Van Dyke

#79. 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

#80. It is only by starting at an unusually young age and by practicing with such ferocious devotion that it is possible to accumulate ten thousand hours while still in adolescence. Far from being an exception to the ten-thousand-hour rule, Mozart is a shining testament to it.

Matthew Syed

#81. There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.

Michel Faber

#82. Landscape is my religion.
... God in a green legend, I lean over the pool
In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood
Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches
And floored with a skin of water.

Norman MacCaig

#83. Is that a nautilus?" he asked. "Close, but no. It's an ammonite." "An ammonite? What's an ammonite? Sounds like an Old Testament people overdue for smiting." "Ammonites are not a biblical people," she replied in a tone of strained forbearance. "But they have been smited." "Smote

Tessa Dare

#84. Blake turned to John. "I know you already know this, Mr. McHugh, but your daughter is the most exceptional person I've ever had the honor of meeting. She's a testament to your dedication as a parent." He squeezed Livia's hand back.

Debra Anastasia

#85. It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

Noah Webster

#86. 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

#87. 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.

#88. The proper exegetical principle is this: Mosaic law is still to be enforced, by the church or the State or both, unless there is a specific injunction to the contrary in the New Testament.

Gary North

#89. 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

#90. The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and we learn about Him in its pages. We know that it has great power. It has the power to change lives. It has the power to convert. If you read it with an open heart, you will know that it is the word of God and that it is true.

Henry B. Eyring

#91. Don't clock off from life, you are still standing and that is testament there is more to live. Embrace life.

Tony Curl

#92. That's the Rookery. It is hidden from the eyes of the populace, a secret fortress that protects the normal people even as they remain ignorant of it. It is a testament to the willingness of humanity to ignore the obvious.

Daniel O'Malley

#93. The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life

Michael J. Fox

#94. The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

Bill Maher

#96. 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

#97. It is extraordinary how little the New Testament says about God's interest in our success, by comparison with the enormous amount that it says about God's interest in our holiness, our maturity in Christ, and our growth into the fullness of His image.

J.I. Packer

#98. 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.

#99. The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.

Greg Sestero

#100. 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