Testament Quotes - Page 9

• All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

  Mark Kingwell

  Wall, Struggle, Space

  Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The missionary calling has sometimes been interpreted as a calling to stem this fearful cataract of souls going to eternal perdition. But I do not find this in the center of the New Testament representation of the missionary calling.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Soul, Missionary, Calling

  Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.167, SPCK

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• I've been thinking of a story from the Old Testament: Moses stood all day and all night with outstretched arms, praying to God for victory. And whenever he let down his arms, the enemy prevailed over the children of Israel. Are there still people today who never weary of directing all their thinking and all their energy, single-heartedly, to one cause?

  Sophie Scholl

  Children, Night, Thinking

  "Seeking Peace : Notes and Conversations Along the Way" by Johann Christoph Arnold, (p. 155), 2000.

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• If you want a symbol of Roman power and strength look no further than the Praetorian or Imperial Guard. We could take this one step further. It was this world of Roman power into which Christ came, in which the Apostles ministered, in which the New Testament authors wrote, and in which Christianity came into being. And to all of those things, Rome stood opposed, violently opposed.

  Stephen Nichols

  Rome, Looks, World

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• The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Average, Church, May

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• The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

  William Blake

  Art, Old And New, New Testament

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.360, Pearson Education

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• There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

  Bill Vaughan

  Pessimistic, Resurrection, Notes

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• The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, articulate but unseen, is the same Saviour who, on the open heights of the Gospel, and in the abundant daylight of this New Testament, speaks to us. Still all along it is the same Jesus, and that Bible is from beginning to end all of it, the word of Christ.

  John Milton

  Bible, Jesus, Father

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• In the Old Testament, God dealt with His people as a nation...Their relationship was completely external. But in the New Covenant, the presence of God moved out of the temple and into our hearts.

  John Chisum

  Heart, People, Covenant

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• I loved The Wind in the Willows. ... Walt Disney should be sued for cheapening it as he did. Imagine it, Mickey Mousing all those nice characters. I'm surprised he didn't do it with the New Testament.

  Tasha Tudor

  Movie, Nice, Character

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• Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest) in the public worship of God, as it now is (with the claim that it is the Christianity of the New Testament), thou hast constantly one guilt the less, and that a great one: thou dost not take part in treating God as a fool by calling that the Christianity of the New Testament which is not the Christianity of the New Testament.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Art, Guilt, May

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

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• The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spiritual, Religious, Men

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• Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.

  Vance Havner

  Saint, Normal, Christianity

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• All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are reconciled; for the cross is the magnet which sends the electric current through the telegraph between earth and heaven, and makes both Testaments thrill, through the ages of the past and future, with living, harmonious, and saving truth.

  Edward Thomson

  Past, Men, Heaven

  Edward Thomson (1872). “Evidences of Revealed Religion”, p.304

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• As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

  Islamic, Rights, Saudi Arabia

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• We are delighted with today’s State Supreme Court ruling allowing marriage equality in California. It is a true testament to advancing equality and to recognizing the right of all Californians to build a future with the person they love. We recently lost Mildred Loving, the woman whose marriage to a man of another race ushered in the Supreme Court ruling that made marriage colorblind. Today’s ruling is another important reminder that love will overcome.

  Karen Bass

  Men, Race, California

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• Old Testament, is really one of the most wickedest books you'll ever come across. God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby Knight and Suge Knight. He's got these anger issues that you can't believe. He's like John McCain if McCain could fart hail. He's pro-slavery, he's pro-polygamy, he's homophobic, he'll kill you for masturbating.

  Bill Maher

  Book, Believe, Insecure

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea that the Earth is 6,000 years old. As I understand it, this involves the Bible's Old Testament exclusively.

  Bill Nye

  Christian, Religious, Years

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science: the theological outgrowth or offshoot known as moral theology. Its biblical foundations are meager in the sense that nothing of the kind exists in the New Testament, so it has had to achieve its ambition largely by dint of its own efforts.

  Uta Ranke-Heinemann

  Sex, Ambition, Biblical

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• Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.

  J. G. Holland

  Mouths, Moral, Conviction

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 290, 1895.

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• The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Law, Old Testament, New Testament

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

  Thomas Paine

  Fate, Religion, Foundation

  Richard Watson, Thomas Paine (1855). “Apology for the Bible: In a Series of Letters Addressed to Thomas Paine, Author of The Age of Reason”, p.133

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• I suspect that, though Craig indulges in a bit of wishful thinking, playing taps for various critical approaches still quite far from death's door, he may well be correct that New Testament scholarship is more conservative than it once was. This has more than he admits to do with which denominations can afford to train the most students, hire more faculty, and send more members to the SBL.

  Robert M. Price

  Thinking, Doors, Indulge In

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• Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.

  Robert M. Price

  Religion, Body, Resurrection

  "By This Time He Stinketh" by Robert M. Price, infidels.org. 1997.

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• Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.

  Elaine Pagels

  Christian, Catholic, Religion

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