Testament Quotes - Page 15

• The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Way, Old Testament

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• One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use of the term "Father." Over 70 times in the New Testament alone, God is described as "Father" to His children. No major world religion describes the relationship between its creator and its adherents in terms of a father.

  Ergun Caner

  Children, Father, Biblical

  Ed Hindson, Ergun Caner (2008). “The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics: Surveying the Evidence for the Truth of Christianity”, p.254, Harvest House Publishers

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• Peace should be a hallmark of the godly person, first because it is a Godlike trait: God is called the God of peace several times in the New Testament. He took the initiative to establish peace with rebellious men, and He is the author of both personal peace as well as peace among men. Peace should be part of our character also because God has promised us His peace, because He has commanded us to let peace rule in our lives and relationships, and because peace is a fruit of the Spirit and therefore an evidence of His working in our lives.

  Jerry Bridges

  Character, Godly, Men

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• 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

  Twenties, Needs, Old Testament

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beautiful, Creative, Purpose

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• The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.

  Thomas Paine

  Handwriting, Creation, Deism

  Thomas Paine (2013). “The Thomas Paine Reader”, p.557, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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

  Jesus, Heart, Doe

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• In the Old Testament…God is the owner of the vineyard. Here He is the Keeper, the Farmer, the One who takes care of the vineyard. Jesus is the genuine Vine, and the Father takes care of Him…In the Old Testament it is prophesied that the Lord Jesus would grow up before Him as a tender plant and as a root out of the dry ground. Think how often the Father intervened to save Jesus from the devil who wished to slay Him. The Father is the One who cared for the Vine, and He will care for the branches, too.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Jesus, Growing Up, Father

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• And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of?

  Pete Seeger

  Fall, Years, Rocks

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• I am joining the more than 200,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year... I am inspired by the brave women who have faced this battle before me and grateful for the support of family and friends.

  Sheryl Crow

  Cancer, Grateful, Years

  "Sheryl Crow undergoes cancer surgery". www.cnn.com. February 27, 2006.

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• If only one country, for whatever reason, tolerates a Jewish family in it, that family will become the germ center for fresh sedition. If one little Jewish boy survives without any Jewish education, with no synagogue and no Hebrew school, it [Judaism] is in his soul. Even if there had never been a synagogue or a Jewish school or an Old Testament, the Jewish spirit would still exist and exert its influence. It has been there from the beginning and there is no Jew, not a single one, who does not personify it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, School, Boys

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• The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved or disproved, the Church, which like former impostors had then gotten possession of the State, had everything its own way. It invented creeds, such as that called the Apostle's Creed, the Nicean Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and out of the loads of rubbish that were presented it voted four to be Gospels, and others to be Epistles, as we now find them arranged.

  Thomas Paine

  Years, Religion, Church

  Thomas Paine (1820). “Appendix to the Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.57

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• It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.

  Thomas Paine

  Religious, Jesus, Father

  Thomas Paine (1875). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.154

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• It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

  William Barclay

  Book, Simple, New Testament

  William Barclay (1961). “The Making of the Bible”

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• When God spoke to Moses and others in the Old Testament, those events were encounters with God. An encounter with Jesus was an encounter with God for the disciples. In the same way an encounter with the Holy Spirit is an encounter with God for you.

  Henry Blackaby

  Jesus, Encounters, Events

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• I am confident that many people will find the New Testament alive in a new way after reading The Message.

  Jay Kesler

  Reading, People, Alive

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

  Marilynne Robinson

  Would Be, Old Testament, Summary

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• The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt.

  F. F. Bruce

  Bible, Dream, Writing

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• If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and the gospel into a new law? Once we do that, religious fascism with all its sectarian ugliness cannot be far away. Far better a mistaken Christian (a heretic) who has somehow caught the Spirit of Christ, than an orthodox Protestant who thinks that the Spirit is mediated to him through the letter of correct theology.

  Robert D. Brinsmead

  Bible, Christian, Religious

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• 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

  Inspiration, Believe, Patriotic

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters”

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• 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

  People, Needs, Oracles

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• 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

  Reading, Looks, Benefits

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• Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  God, Spring, Creativity

  1957 Baccalaureate address, 9 Jun.

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• At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not so with the New Testament.

  Daniel B. Wallace

  Ancient Literature, Creative, Criticism

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