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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. -- Joseph Campbell
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
John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets. -- Leonard Ravenhill
The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom. -- R. C. Sproul
Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old. -- Andre Simon
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
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
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
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
I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful. -- Daunte Culpepper
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm. -- Paul Ricoeur
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
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
Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament. -- Jo Nesbo
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life threatened from illness and real grief. But they get through it. And that's the testament to the human spirit and it's -we are fragile, but we also are divine. -- Sheryl Crow
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
The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament. -- Samuel Adams
Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made. -- Phillips Brooks
He whose birth we commemorate this season is more than the symbol of a holiday. He is the Son of God, the Creator of the earth, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, the fulfillment of the Law of Moses, the Redeemer of mankind, the King of Kings, the Prince of Peace. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in. -- C. S. Lewis
Nature is God's Old Testament. -- Theodore Parker
The New Testament is not a historical document. -- Reza Aslan
The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading. -- Tom Baker
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you. -- John Jay Chapman
The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through. -- Philip Yancey
The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. -- Joni Mitchell
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 loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind. -- Luke Ford
Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal. -- Vance Havner
The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament. -- Aleister Crowley
I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales. -- Amos Oz
The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good. -- Philip Yancey
Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. -- Tony Campolo
The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy. -- Billy Graham
The New Testament writers did not invent a doctrine of Scripture they inherited it. -- D. A. Carson
The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament. -- Thomas Guthrie
I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy. -- Anna Quindlen
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New. -- Benjamin Whichcote
One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism. -- Steve Allen
There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection. -- Bill Vaughan
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. -- Francis Bacon
The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men. -- Edith Hamilton
Had it been in the Old Testament Harry Potter would have been put to death. -- Becky Fischer
The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed. -- Saint Augustine
Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder? -- George Eliot
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
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place. -- Josh McDowell
It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors. -- Dean Alford
The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles. -- C. S. Lewis
If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves. -- Marilynne Robinson
New Testament Christians did not witness because they had to but because they could not help it. -- Richard Halverson
The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests. -- William Jennings Bryan
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods. -- David Harsanyi
The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent. -- David Platt
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock. -- Vance Havner
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance. -- Mark Twain
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
There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy. -- Joseph Campbell
Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out. -- Michael W. Smith
The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity. -- J. I. Packer
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. -- Charles Dickens
In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life. -- Anna Quindlen
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off. -- Lionel Blue
The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains. -- J. I. Packer
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world. -- Boyd K. Packer
One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it. -- Scot McKnight
New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home. -- Vance Havner
The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament. -- Robert Jeffress
I am confident that many people will find the New Testament alive in a new way after reading The Message. -- Jay Kesler
Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime. -- Bill Maher
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. -- John Locke
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. -- Ray Bradbury
I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament. -- Matisyahu
If you have the Old Testament at home, if you flip the corner pages, you can see Jesus riding a horse. -- Gilbert Gottfried
Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it. -- Nelson Rockefeller
One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt -- F. F. Bruce
The New Testament preaches a Christ who was dead and is alive, not a Christ who was alive and is dead. -- James Denney
A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament. -- Tony Kushner
You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament. -- Steven Wright
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material. -- Reza Aslan
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
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
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
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
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
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
In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused. -- Leonard Ravenhill
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
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
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

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