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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
This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology. -- J. I. Packer
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm. -- Paul Ricoeur
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. -- Charles Dickens
The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom. -- R. C. Sproul
The New Testament preaches a Christ who was dead and is alive, not a Christ who was alive and is dead. -- James Denney
In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. -- Thomas Paine
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
Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it. -- John Gresham Machen
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
If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy. -- Anna Quindlen
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. -- Philip Yancey
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New. -- Randall Terry
All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe. -- Thomas Paine
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
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
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
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
The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man because... he was a single man. -- John Ortberg
When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them. -- Francis Chan
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
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
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
In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves. -- J. I. Packer
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim. -- Reza Aslan
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
I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth. -- Maya Angelou
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament. -- Benjamin Rush
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
It is of immense importance for the understanding of the word of God, to read it in course, so that we may read every day a portion of the Old and a portion of the New Testament, going on where we previously left off. -- George Muller
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
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
As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments. -- Kevin DeYoung
The New Testament is not a historical document. -- Reza Aslan
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you. -- John Jay Chapman
I'm a New Testament Christian. I reject and throw out titles. -- Bill Bright
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude. -- Thomas Erskine
I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal. -- Vance Havner
The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy. -- Billy Graham
The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good. -- Philip Yancey
Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. -- Tony Campolo
The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament. -- Thomas Guthrie
The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it. -- D. A. Carson
I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy. -- Anna Quindlen
There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection. -- Bill Vaughan
One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism. -- Steve Allen
It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors. -- Dean Alford
Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder? -- George Eliot
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place. -- Josh McDowell
New Testament Christians did not witness because they had to but because they could not help it. -- Richard Halverson
The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles. -- C. S. Lewis
The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent. -- David Platt
The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests. -- William Jennings Bryan
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock. -- Vance Havner
Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. -- John Nelson Darby
According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like. -- Stanley J. Grenz
The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life. -- Anna Quindlen
In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity. -- J. I. Packer
New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. -- Ray Bradbury
The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains. -- J. I. Packer
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. -- John Locke
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off. -- Lionel Blue
I am confident that many people will find the New Testament alive in a new way after reading The Message. -- Jay Kesler
There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home. -- Vance Havner
And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt -- F. F. Bruce
Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material. -- Reza Aslan
If we believe terrorists are past redemption, we should just rip up like 1/2 the New Testament because it was written by one. -- Shane Claiborne
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
I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart. -- Anna Quindlen
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
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
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
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so. -- William Barclay
In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children. -- Norman Geisler
Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old. -- Andre Simon
You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament. -- Steven Wright
The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing. -- Frederic G. Kenyon
There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry. -- Vance Havner
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
Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it -- John Gresham Machen
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
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
As long as Christian life remains our life we will not understand the Christ of the New Testament. You are not your own. -- K.P. Yohannan
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
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
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
The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation. -- Thomas Paine
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." -- Robert Runcie
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
One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
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
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
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
The teachings of the New Testament are the most valuable guide to the best way to a civil and sustainable society the world has seen. -- Andrew Forrest
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
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
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
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. -- William Arthur Ward
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
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
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
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
Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac? -- Thomm Quackenbush
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
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament. -- Daniel Everett
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
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. -- Frank Moore Cross
You cannot find one single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against non-believers. Jesus said to love your enemies. Muhammad said to butcher your enemies. -- Robert Jeffress
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 -- F. F. Bruce
The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written. -- Joseph Butler
Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God. -- Billy Graham

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