Old Testament Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Bible, Biblical, Blood

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• Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.

  Saint Augustine

  Sacrifice, Holy Eucharist, Way

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• The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the sons of men. The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pain, Son, Past

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.474, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Enough, Good Work, Made

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• The Old Testament records the preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The Gospels record the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ our Lord. The book of Acts records the propagation of the gospel (the good news) concerning Jesus Christ. The Epistles (letters) explain the gospel and its implications for our lives. The book of Revelation anticipates and describes the second coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of His eternal kingdom. From beginning to end, the Bible glorifies Jesus Christ and centers on Him. Its Christ-centeredness is one of its wonderful features.

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Book, Preparation

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• 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

  Book, Men, Soul

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

  Mark Twain

  God, Romance, Sacred

  Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). “Mark Twain's notebook”, Scholarly Pr

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• We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light of the end of the story – i.e. in the light of Christ

  Christopher J. H. Wright

  Light, Events, Stories

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• The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all; and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.

  Theodore Parker

  Religious, Men, Lines

  "The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Historic Americans".

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• For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they recounted of the history of others. Both were written down in the books called the Old Testament, [the Torah] the sacred writings of the Jewish people ... They were the first to arrive at an abstract notion of God and to forbid his representation by images. No other people has produced a greater historical impact from such comparatively insignificant origins and resources.

  John Roberts

  Book, Writing, Impact

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

  Scot McKnight

  Christian, Needs, Today

  Scot McKnight (2016). “The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited”, p.27, Zondervan

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• Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days. The Old Testament is clear that this was a strong patriarchal family. Men were permitted several wives and concubines. Children were legitimately conceived by these concubines outside of marriage. . . . Is this the Evangelical's idea of an ideal family?

  Ira Reiss

  Strong, Children, Biblical

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• 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

  Bible, Years, People

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• 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

  Moving, Wrath, Covenant

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• 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 ‘Master of Chaos’ and the New Testament as ‘The Thing With Three Souls.

  Terry Carr

  Cutting, Two, Soul

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• The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth - Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.

  Joseph McCabe

  School, Civilization, Long

  "The Sources of the Morality of the Gospels". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1914.

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• 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

  Lying, Church, New Testament

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• 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

  Law, Death Penalty, Moses

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• 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

  Jesus, Easter, Heaven

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• 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

  Men, Religion, Example

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1993). “The Woman's Bible”, p.195, UPNE

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• 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

  Movie, Running, Children

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• 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

  Differences, Tower Of Babel, Towers

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• 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

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

  William Faulkner

  Baptists, Ulysses, Should

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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

  Steven Wright

  Thinking, Should, New Testament

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