Testament Quotes - Page 6

• A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Race, Culture, Genius

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1980). “An Anthology”

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• One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder. He was interviewing me on a book I had written on the New Testament of the Bible called Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, and we talked about the dating of the books of the New Testament, and I said, "Well, the consensus is that the gospels were written some forty to seventy years after the crucifixion." And he stopped me and said, "Wait a minute, Bishop, that means they couldn't have been written by eyewitnesses."

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Mean, Night

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Love Is, Definitions

  "The Witch of Portobello". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2007.

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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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• Another [book on Matthew] is Amy-Jill Levine, who is a Jewish woman who teaches New Testament at the Vanderbilt School of Religion. It's a group of essays by mostly womanly scholars looking at Matthew's gospel through feminists' eyes - very exciting. It opens up all sorts of things that I've never thought about.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Eye, School

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I quickly found that the American church is a difficult place to fit in if you want to live out New Testament Christianity. The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who don't swear, and good church attendance. Taking the words of Christ literally, and seriously, is rarely considered. That's for the 'radicals' who are 'unbalanced' and who go 'overboard.' Most of us want a balanced life we can control, that is safe, and that does not involve suffering.

  Francis Chan

  Children, Nice, Goal

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• The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living, breathing love story, testament to the brightest passion that ever burned between our races. You can follow the scenes through if you've time enough and are willing to risk getting lost for a few centuries.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kings, Passion, Race

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Sep 12, 2013

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• This women/ killer was a testament to my theory that the crazier you are, the more calories you burn. That's why psychos are always so skinny.

  Chelsea Handler

  Killers, Skinny, Psycho

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions—words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.” Will grabbed the sheaf of newspaper clippings he kept in a stack on his desk. “This, and these”—he gestured to the library’s teeming shelves—“they’re a testament to the country’s rich supernatural history.

  Libba Bray

  Country, Lying, Thinking

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• She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Spiritual, Real, Commitment

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• Justin Martyr says that he was impressed in his study of the Old Testament, at the seriousness and contents of these writings, and became convinced that Jesus fulfilled these texts.

  Larry Hurtado

  Jesus, Writing, Study

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Every believer should evangelize. I know some Christians think that evangelism is only for people with special gifts for it, but I don't believe the New Testament teaches that. While Paul does say that some believers have the call to be evangelists, all of us have the responsibility of evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Waiting, Machines

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• I don't see a clerical class in the New Testament to which evangelism has been delegated. Preaching is not the only way to evangelize; it can happen in everyday conversations too. And you don't need a special gift to witness to the Lord in these situations.

  Mark Dever

  Class, Everyday, Special

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Children, Only Child

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• She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.

  Nora Roberts

  Book, Home, Space

  Nora Roberts (2003). “Key Of Knowledge”, p.26, Penguin

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• Scripture itself is not systematic; the New Testament shows the greatest variety. God has shown us that he can use any instrument. Balaam's ass, you remember, preached a very effective sermon in the midst of his 'hee-haws.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Use, Systematic, Scripture

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.

  Terry Eagleton

  Jesus, Pain, Justice

  Terry Eagleton (2014). “Reason, Faith, & Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate”, p.27, Yale University Press

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• I think that there are many things in the New Testament that show us that the godliness of our conversation plays an important evangelistic role. The apostles are clear that we mustn't limit the explicit sharing of the gospel to formal preaching. It can also happen in ordinary conversations.

  Mark Dever

  Thinking, Play, Important

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants - packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or damaged, mountains of odds and ends - the stand testament to the fact that they have things now, where before they had nothing.

  Zadie Smith

  Odds, Mountain, Matter

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.278, Vintage

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• Twenty-nine years ago, I came to faith in Christ after a gentleman from the Gideon's International gave me a free copy of the New Testament Bible. I started in Matthew and read all the way to Ephesians 2 when it finally clicked for me. After reading about salvation by grace through faith, I cried out to Jesus for his forgiveness and surrendered my whole life to Him. At that moment, I became a new person.

  Craig Groeschel

  Jesus, Reading, Years

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.

  Nick Cave

  Voice, Bags, Burning

  "And the Ass Saw the Angel". Book by Nick Cave, 1989.

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• If joy or urgency are missing from our presentation of the gospel, then our testimony to Christ will be missing that sort of fullness that we find in the New Testament.

  Mark Dever

  Joy, Missing, Christ

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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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, Old Testament, Should

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• The word is a sort of deliverance from the shifting world of appearances. The central teaching of the New Testament is that those who accept the word acquire wisdom and at the same time some identification with the eternal.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Teaching, World, Shifting

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.135, University of Chicago Press

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