Testament Quotes - Page 10

• Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.

  Carolyn Custis James

  Responsibility, Office, Church

  Carolyn Custis James (2011). “The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules”, p.69, Harper Collins

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• The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

  Tom Baker

  Reading, Fantasy, Old Testament

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jesus, Punishment, Ideas

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• OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life.

  Marjorie Dannenfelser

  Beautiful, Baby, Powerful

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• There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty and revenge, unless it be the New Testament, which arms its God with hell, and extends his outrages throughout all eternity!

  Helen H. Gardener

  Revenge, Book, Atheism

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• Know that you are part of a joyful Universe. Allow your romantic, ecstatic, blissful emotions to appear more frequently in your daily life. When you feel joy, experience it and express it! As the New Testament says, 'Joy is the fruit of the Spirit.'

  Wayne Dyer

  Joy, Fruits Of The Spirit, Emotion

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 05, 2013

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• I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Tyrants, Rainbow

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• The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Jesus, Book, World

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• The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.

  Mark Galli

  Children, Doe, Fetus

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• Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in the testament, as they feared to advocate suffrage fifty years ago. Now they are quarreling as to which were among the first to advocate it. You see they are not used to abuse as I am. In Albany, fifty years ago, when I went before the legislature to plead for a married woman's right to her own property, the women whom I met in society crossed the street rather than speak to me.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Years, Abuse, Atheism

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• One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheism, Gloves, Filth

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• And while I'm on the subject, let me say something about Harry Potter. [Gravels her voice.] Warlocks are enemies of God!! [Back to normal screech.] And I don't care what kind of hero they are, they're an enemy of God. And had it been in the Old Testament, Harry Potter woulda been put to death! [Applause.] You don't make heroes out of warlocks. This is the generation that's gonna stand for purity, an' righteousnesss, an' holiness, an' you're gonna serve the lord all the days of your life.

  Becky Fischer

  Hero, Voice, Scary

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• Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.

  Desmond Tutu

  Wife, Old Testament, Figures

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Spiritual, Religious

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Faith, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.

  Michael J. Fox

  Giving, Stories, Consolation

  "Always Looking Up". Book by Michael J. Fox, abcnews.go.com. September 2008.

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• I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick.... I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in the way of art.... What did they do but illustrate a page or so of the New Testament! They themselves think they have a monopoly in the line. I am dead tired of their bello and bellezza.

  James Joyce

  Art, Hate, Tired

  James Joyce, Richard Ellmann (1966). “Letters”

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• Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.

  Hannah Arendt

  Death, Strong, Thinking

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and double standards in the face of a natural drift towards monogamous bonding. Young men have been called upon to prove their masculinity by their willingness to die in warfare, and young women have been called upon to prove their femininity by their willingness to die for their man. Women have been asked to appear small, dumb, and helpless so men would feel big and strong, brave, and clever. It's been a trick.

  Frank Pittman

  Strong, Clever, Struggle

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• In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children.

  Norman Geisler

  Christian, Religious, Children

  Norman Geisler, Frank Turek (2003). “Legislating Morality: Is It Wise? Is It Legal? Is It Possible?”, p.88, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
  With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
  people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.

  Ogden Nash

  Purple, People, Soldier

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't like extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.

  Mandy Moore

  Mom, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

  J. I. Packer

  Church, Newton, Canon

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.

  Miroslav Volf

  Doe, Social Behavior, Done

  "The Clumsy Embrace". Interview with Kevin D. Miller, www.christianitytoday.com. October 26, 1998.

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• I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.

  Matisyahu

  Song, Thinking, Bob

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