Testament Quotes - Page 18

• And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt

  F. F. Bruce

  Writing, Doubt, Authenticity

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• 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

  Christian, Reading, Practice

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• 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

  Ancient Literature, World, Body

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• Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it

  Mary Landrieu

  Country, Real, Iraq

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• The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

  Christopher Paolini

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1560, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity?  In the faith of the New Testament it is central.  The love of God, the taking of human form by the Son, the meaning of the cross, Christ's heavenly intercession, the way of salvation-all are to be explained in terms of itand any explanation from which the thought of propitiation is missing will be incomplete, and indeed actually misleading, by New Testament standards

  J. I. Packer

  Son, Missing, Way

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• That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and religion but to the flexibility, in both the physical and metaphysical senses, of the human brain.

  Susan Jacoby

  Brain, Belief, Natural

  Susan Jacoby (2005). “Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism”, p.132, Macmillan

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• Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Hair, Hands

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be ADOPTION THROUGH PROPITIATION, and I do not expect ever to meet a richer or more pregnant summary of the gospel than that.

  J. I. Packer

  Focus, Adoption, Would Be

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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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• 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

  Bible, Jobs, Supernatural Beings

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• Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Inspire, Noon, Honest

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• We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Christian, Jesus, Father

  D.H. Lawrence (1974). “Apocalypse”

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• 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

  Ideas, Needs, Unchristian

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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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• We can already say emphatically that there is no longer any solid basis for dating any book of the New Testament after about A.D. 80, two full generations before the date between 130 and 150 given by the more radical New Testament critics of today.

  William F. Albright

  Book, Two, Dating

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• There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

  William F. Albright

  Doubt, Tradition, Old Testament

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• The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.

  Leonard Shlain

  Art, Book, Profound

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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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• 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

  Biblical, Criticism, Alternatives

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• Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all the new Testament of the abolishing of the Judicial law, so far as it did concern the punishing of sins against the Moral law, of which Heresy and seducing of souls is one, and a great one. Once God did reveal his will for punishing those sins by such and such punishments. He who will hold that the Christian Magistrate is not bound to inflict such punishments for such sins, is bound to prove that those former laws of God are abolished, and to shew some scripture for it.

  George Gillespie

  Christian, Law, Punishment

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• The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Old Testament, New Testament

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• I still believe Americas destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.

  John F. Kerry

  Believe, Destiny, Unity

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• 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

  Rights, Creation, Ends

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• If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Father, Believe

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