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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. -- Francis Bacon
In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods. -- David Harsanyi
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. -- Joseph Campbell
Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
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 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
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. -- Steve Allen
As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible. -- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
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 Green Ingersoll
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
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
The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading. -- Tom Baker
The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. -- Joni Mitchell
I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind. -- Luke Ford
The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men. -- Edith Hamilton
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New. -- Benjamin Whichcote
If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves. -- Marilynne Robinson
John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out. -- Michael W. Smith
We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages. -- John Owen
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
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
Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament. -- R. C. Sproul
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
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 counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course. -- A. A. Milne
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
I may add that the result of my 45 years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to a firmer faith that in the Old Testament, we have a true historical account of the history of the Israelite people. -- Robert Dick Wilson
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. -- Richard Dawkins
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
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
Nature is God's Old Testament. -- Theodore Parker
The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through. -- Philip Yancey
The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament. -- Aleister Crowley
The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales. -- Amos Oz
Had it been in the Old Testament Harry Potter would have been put to death. -- Becky Fischer
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. -- William Faulkner
There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition. -- William F. Albright
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance. -- Mark Twain
The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests. -- William Jennings Bryan
The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament. -- Robert Jeffress
Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime. -- Bill Maher
One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it. -- Scot McKnight
If you have the Old Testament at home, if you flip the corner pages, you can see Jesus riding a horse. -- Gilbert Gottfried
I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament. -- Matisyahu
Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it. -- Nelson Rockefeller
You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament. -- Steven Wright
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. -- Randall Terry
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
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
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
This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws. -- Ann Coulter
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
One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder. -- A. J. Jacobs
The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus. -- Mark Galli
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
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process. -- J. I. Packer
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
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. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson
In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. Thereâ??s a special punishment Christians would suggest. -- Bob Marshall
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
God appeared to His people in the Old Testament and dwelt with His people in the New - and now abides in us by His Spirit. -- David Jeremiah
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
Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath. -- Laird Barron
The Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament says there is no new thing under the sun. We can also say there is no new thing above the sun! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like. -- Quentin S. Crisp
I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but nobody has read him. -- Erich Fromm
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
The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically , as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy. -- Northrop Frye
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. -- Desmond Tutu
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. -- H. L. Mencken
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The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician. -- Tom Hayden
I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say "our prophets." -- Desmond Tutu
Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will. -- Gordon Fee
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
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New. -- Adam Clarke
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
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
Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly compassionate. He's not a one-dimensional figure at all. -- A. J. Jacobs
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
Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching. -- David Novak
The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children -- Richard Dawkins
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
There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel. -- Tullian Tchividjian
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
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
The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like. -- Bruce Kent
If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death. -- Gerald Heaney
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. -- John Chisum
Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures. -- Ravi Zacharias
I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I'm a Christian Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist. -- Julie Burchill
The word ezer is used only twenty other places in the entire Old Testament. And in every other instance the person being described is God himself, when you need him to come through for you desperately" -- Stasi Eldredge
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. -- N. T. Wright
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
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
It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world to recognize what was prophesized throughout the Old Testament about Israel returning after its absence. -- Louie Gohmert
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
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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
Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We're all cremated equal. We're insufferable friends. I've been working my head to the bone. -- Goodman Ace
I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea that the Earth is 6,000 years old. As I understand it, this involves the Bible's Old Testament exclusively. -- Bill Nye
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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
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
...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin. -- Soren Kierkegaard
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 â??Master of Chaos' and the New Testament as â??The Thing With Three Souls. -- Terry Carr
From the Old Testament, containing the Atlantean Mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating his species without the co-operation of another, as is the case with some plants today. -- Max Heindel
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
Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet. -- M. Russell Ballard
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
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
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
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

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