Testament Quotes - Page 3

• The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Powerful, Writing, Living My Life

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• My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Hebrew, New Testament, Interest

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our wounds, our comforter when we are overburdened, the memorial of Jesus Christ, the proof of his love, the most precious precept of his testament, our companion in the pilgrimage of life, the joy sustaining us in our exile, the burning coal kindling the fire of divine love, the instrument of grace, the pledge of eternal bliss and the treasure of Christians

  Louis of Granada

  Christian, Jesus, Healing

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• Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No different weight is given to one or the other.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Different, Weight, Hebrew

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• 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

  Religious, Children, Miracle

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• People should know whatever it is you love to do. I am a living testament to the fact that you can do it. You can do whatever it is you put your mind to and you can do it in stilettos.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  People, Mind, Facts

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• It never occurred to me that I’d be typecast, although I was. And I never thought of the role as a commercial product, because I was… well, I was playing this slightly messianic alien. He isn’t violent, he doesn’t get his leg over the girl, he doesn’t steal, and he’s rather wry, and adorable, and mysterious. He’s lived for 900 years or something. He lives the life of the old patriarchs of the Old Testament. That’s not commercial. He’s special.

  Tom Baker

  Girl, Live Life, Years

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• The Steve Jobs who founded Apple as an anarchic company promoting the message of freedom, whose first projects with Stephen Wozniak were pirate boxes and computers with open schematics, would be taken aback by the future that Apple is forging. Today there is no tech company that looks more like the Big Brother from Apple’s iconic 1984 commercial than Apple itself, a testament to how quickly power can corrupt.

  Mike Daisey

  Brother, Jobs, Taken

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• I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

  Harold Bloom

  Successful, Thinking, Greek

  "Divine (mis)readings". Interview with Harvey Blume, archive.boston.com. November 13, 2005.

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• The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Firsts

  C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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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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• Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we follow that advice we shall have to close our Bible and desert its teachings. The New Testament is a polemic book almost from beginning to end ... It is when men have felt compelled to take a stand against error that they have risen to the really great heights in the celebration of the truth

  John Gresham Machen

  Book, Teaching, Men

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• I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

  Anna Quindlen

  Catholic, Hierarchy, New Testament

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• With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant. A lyrical and riveting testament to the strength of the human spirit, as well as the power of family and community. Ward's paragraphs are like songs, lifting us even as the authenticity of this world and these characters keeps the ground in clear sight. This is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary writer.

  Skip Horack

  Beautiful, Song, Book

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• On closer inspection, the hero status accorded to Abraham, Moses and David in the Old Testament (and echoed in the New Testament) is rooted not in their moral perfection but in their uncompromising dedication to the cause of Yahweh and their rugged trust in the promises of God rather than lapsing into the idolatry of many of their contemporaries.

  Paul Copan

  Hero, Dedication, Perfection

  Paul Copan (2011). “Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God”, p.67, Baker Books

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• 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

  Interesting, Old Testament, Evolve

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• God's nature is revealed most perfectly in the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in the New Testament of the Bible, who was sent by God to reveal the divine nature, summarized in 'God is Love.'

  George F. R. Ellis

  Jesus, Teaching, Atheism

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• It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source. For example, Islam, the predominant religion in the Middle East, accepts as an integral part of its religious teachings both the Old and the New Testaments. If this commonality of moral traditions among the world's major religions does not say something about the universality of religion, it does say something about the universality of mankind.

  King Hussein I

  Religious, Teaching, Religion

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• I am thinking of George Michael's family, friends and fans. He was so loved and I hope he knew it because the sadness today is beyond words. Devastating. What a beautiful voice he had and his music will live on as a testament to his talent. I can't believe he is gone. I hope the Buddha will hold him in his arms. NMRK.

  Boy George

  Beautiful, Believe, Sadness

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• We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments. I encourage all women everywhere to advocate for themselves and for their future. See your doctor and be proactive about your health.

  Sheryl Crow

  Cancer, Doctors, Proactive

  "Sheryl Crow undergoes cancer surgery, postpones tour". www.mtv.com. February 25, 2006.

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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, Old Testament

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• How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners.

  Gerald Heaney

  Teaching, Eye, Law

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• [ My mother] went, OK, I've read the Bible. I've read the Bible again. I'm reading the Bible again. OK, let me - where does this Bible come from? What does this Old Testament speak - who are the Israelites? Who - what is Judaism? And then she went, and I'm going to study that. And, you know, she wanted to almost get to the core.

  Trevor Noah

  Mother, Reading, Doe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Very few people have actually had a chance to see the raw material that was going to comprise these three chapters [of Malcolm X Autobiography]. The missing political testament that should have been in the autobiography, but isn't.

  Manning Marable

  Should Have, People, Political

  "The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination, His Plans to Unite the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist Movements & the 3 'Missing' Chapters from His Autobiography". Interview With Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 21, 2005.

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• In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Jesus, Law, Church

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.130

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