Testament Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

  William Arthur Ward

  Doctrine, Spirit, Ghost

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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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• The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Teaching, Discipline, May

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism”, p.137

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• Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Education, Spiritual, Children

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• Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.

  Norman MacCaig

  Water, Skins, Caves

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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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• You don't know your testament when you see it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knows

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers”, p.180

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• Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical texts. There is no harmless dreaming, no wise speculation in it, but everywhere a substratum of good sense. It never reflects, but it repents. There is no poetry in it, we may say, nothing regarded in the light of beauty merely, but moral truth is its object. All mortals are convicted by its conscience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Dream, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.327, e-artnow

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• The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

  Aleister Crowley

  Writing, Old Testament, Models

  "Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley". Book by Lawrence Sutin, 2000.

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• If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence - these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.

  David Simon

  Pain, Betrayal, Florida

  "David Simon On George Zimmerman Verdict: I’m ‘Ashamed’ To Identify As American" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2013.

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• Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

  David Harsanyi

  People, Old Testament, Peril

  "How Liberalism Destroyed the American Jew" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 10, 2013.

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• To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.

  William Blackstone

  Law, Evil, Sorcery

  William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England - Of Public Wrongs”, p.39, Oxford University Press

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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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• [On the New Testament:] I ... must enter my protest against the false translation of some passages by the men who did that work, and against the perverted interpretation by the men who undertook to write commentaries thereon. I am inclined to think, when we [women] are admitted to the honor of studying Greek and Hebrew, we shall produce some various readings of the Bible a little different from those we now have.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Bible, Reading, Writing

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.16

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• You make a movie to entertain audiences. That's why you make a movie. The product sales is because people love the characters, and to me, that is a testament to how our movie has become so ingrained in family's homes all around the world and that's why I make movies.

  John Lasseter

  Home, Character, People

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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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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• It is true Christians have done terrible things throughout history. But they've always been acting in opposition to their Christian faith. There are no New Testament verses that say, Kill unbelievers.

  Robert Jeffress

  Christian, Acting, Done

  "Witness in Texas pool party incident speaks out; Palin blasts media's Duggar double standard". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 8, 2015.

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• And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Bible, Eagles

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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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• 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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• THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

  Laird Barron

  Epic, Eagles, Scope

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• Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Taken, Anxiety, Church

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