Testament Quotes - Page 9

• The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.

  Thomas Paine

  Handwriting, Creation, Deism

  Thomas Paine (2013). “The Thomas Paine Reader”, p.557, Simon and Schuster

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• What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beautiful, Creative, Purpose

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• The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places--to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.

  Olympia Brown

  Broken, Comfort, Earth

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• The word ezer is used only twenty other places in the entire Old Testament. And in every other instance the person being described is God himself, when you need him to come through for you desperately.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Twenties, Needs, Old Testament

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Peace should be a hallmark of the godly person, first because it is a Godlike trait: God is called the God of peace several times in the New Testament. He took the initiative to establish peace with rebellious men, and He is the author of both personal peace as well as peace among men. Peace should be part of our character also because God has promised us His peace, because He has commanded us to let peace rule in our lives and relationships, and because peace is a fruit of the Spirit and therefore an evidence of His working in our lives.

  Jerry Bridges

  Character, Godly, Men

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• When God spoke to Moses and others in the Old Testament, those events were encounters with God. An encounter with Jesus was an encounter with God for the disciples. In the same way an encounter with the Holy Spirit is an encounter with God for you.

  Henry Blackaby

  Jesus, Encounters, Events

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• I am confident that many people will find the New Testament alive in a new way after reading The Message.

  Jay Kesler

  Reading, People, Alive

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• If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Would Be, Old Testament, Summary

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• As long as Christian life remains our life we will not understand the Christ of the New Testament. You are not your own.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Christian, Long, New Testament

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• When the New Testament speaks about the fullness of grace which we find in Christ, it does not mean only forgiveness, pardon and justification. Christ has done much more for us. He died for us, but he also lived for us. Now he has sent his own Spirit to us so that we might draw on his strength. He grew in grace, and when we draw on his power we shall likewise grow in grace.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Mean, Grace, Doe

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• The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Life Changing, Men

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

  Nick Rahall

  Equality, Years, Ideas

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• All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the future hope of the whole cosmos, grounded in the resurrection of Jesus, gives as coherent a picture as we need or could have of the future that is promised to the whole world, a future in which, under the sovereign and wise rule of the creator God, decay and death will be done away with and a new creation born, to which the present one will stand as mother to child.

  N. T. Wright

  Wise, Mother, Jesus

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• At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not so with the New Testament.

  Daniel B. Wallace

  Ancient Literature, Creative, Criticism

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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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• We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.

  John Owen

  Reading, Looks, Benefits

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• Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Needs, Oracles

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

  Vance Havner

  Saint, Normal, Christianity

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• The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt.

  F. F. Bruce

  Bible, Dream, Writing

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• One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use of the term "Father." Over 70 times in the New Testament alone, God is described as "Father" to His children. No major world religion describes the relationship between its creator and its adherents in terms of a father.

  Ergun Caner

  Children, Father, Biblical

  Ed Hindson, Ergun Caner (2008). “The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics: Surveying the Evidence for the Truth of Christianity”, p.254, Harvest House Publishers

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• The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Way, Old Testament

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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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• Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than
  the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  John Nelson Darby

  Jesus, Christ, Lord

  G. V. WIGRAM, E. L. Bevir, John Nelson Darby, C. H. Mackintosh, C. E. Stuart (2015). “The Christian's Friend and Instructor: Christian Magazine Volume 24, 1897 Edition”, p.72, Irving Risch

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• 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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