Testament Quotes - Page 2

• The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.

  John Hagee

  Men, Church Today, Giving

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• Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.

  Phillips Brooks

  Bible, Jesus, Biblical

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• When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible's idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Mean, Son

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• When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.

  A. C. Dixon

  Real, Thinking, Order

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• It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.

  Herman Melville

  Men, People, May

  1851 Moby Dick, ch.49.

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• Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

  Thomas Paine

  Contradiction, New Testament, Absurdity

  Thomas Paine (1826). “An examination of the passages in the New Testament quoted from the Old and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. To which is prefixed, An essay on dreams. Also an appendix”, p.34

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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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• Today’s events are reminiscent of the Old Testament story of how the Israelites demanded a king over God’s objection. They believed that a king would give them peace and security. The results proved otherwise.

  Ron Paul

  Kings, Giving, Events

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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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• 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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• Why do you think the Bible has survived thousands of years of tumultuous history Why is it still here Is it because its stories are such compelling reading Of course not...but there is a reason. There is a reason Christian monks spend lifetimes attempting to decipher the Bible. There is a reason that Jewish mystics and Kabbalists pore over the Old Testament. And that reason Robert is that there exist powerful secrets hidden in the pages of this ancient book...a vast collection of untapped wisdom waiting to be unveiled.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Powerful, Book

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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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• 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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• Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.

  Tony Campolo

  Opportunity, Men, Privilege

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• There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges.

  Tony Campolo

  Men, Privilege, Spirit

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• I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  "Interview: President Jimmy Carter Talks About His New Bible and Christian Beliefs". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.

  Orson Pratt

  Men, Servant Of God, Doctrine

  Orson Pratt (1851). “O. Pratt: A Series of Pamphlets”, p.28

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• This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.

  Annie Besant

  Errors, Law, Old Testament

  Annie Besant (2014). “The Christian Creed: Or, What it is Blasphemy to Deny”, p.56, The Floating Press

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• I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, Sunday, Brain

  "Anna Quindlen: Over 50, And Having 'Plenty Of Cake'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kcur.org. April 24, 2012.

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• Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

  Michael W. Smith

  Army, Musician, Looks

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• If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.

  Lysander Spooner

  Book, Men, Ideas

  "Partisans of Freedom: A Study in American Anarchism". Book by William O. Reichert, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, p. 118, 1976.

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• The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.

  Lysander Spooner

  Jesus, Imagination, Style

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

  Rick Warren

  Needs, Helping, Old Testament

  "No Compromise With Evil". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. August 15, 2008.

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• If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.

  Anna Quindlen

  Catholic, Church, Hierarchy

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• Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity.

  Annie Besant

  Writing, Names, Captivity

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.425, Jazzybee Verlag

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