Testament Quotes

If joy or urgency are missing from our presentation of the gospel, then our testimony to Christ will be missing that sort of fullness that we find in the New Testament.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

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.

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.

The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian faith and practice

Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.

The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it.

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

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.

If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.

In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children.

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

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.

According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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.

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

Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

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.

The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

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.

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.

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

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

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

In the Old Testament, God dealt with His people as a nation...Their relationship was completely external. But in the New Covenant, the presence of God moved out of the temple and into our hearts.

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.

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.

A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.

In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted in all that remained, such as Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

In terms of the New Testament the Jews must suffer, therefore we will put it into practice if we will in charge and there will be no sympathy for the Jews when the blacks take over.

The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."

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.

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.

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

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.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.

My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.

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.

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.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.