New Testament Quotes

• If God is for us, who can be against us?

  Paul the Apostle

  Bible, God, Christian

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• You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.

  John Jay Chapman

  Society, Criticize, Testament

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• Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.

  J. I. Packer

  Fall, Leaving, Darkness

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• So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Taken, Long, Norm

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.382, A&C Black

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• The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament.

  Thomas Paine

  Jesus, Christ, Old Testament

  Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub”, p.216

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• Angels are spirit beings who are mentioned more than 250 times in both the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.99, WaterBrook

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• There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than the fact that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this–that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do, that you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will abound all the more to the glory of grace. That is a very good test of gospel preaching. If my preaching and presentation of the gospel of salvation does not expose it to that misunderstanding, then it is not the gospel.

  Martyn

  Mean, Men, People

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• The Christian must abstain from sin. It is as simple and direct as that. You have no right to say, 'I am weak, I cannot, and temptation is very powerful.' The answer of the New Testament is, Stop doing it!

  Martyn

  Christian, Powerful, Simple

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• I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

  N. T. Wright

  Writing, Biblical, Discipline

  "N.T. Wright: On Jesus and Writing". Interview with Marcia Z. Nelson, www.publishersweekly.com. November 23, 2011.

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• The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

  C. S. Lewis

  Doe, Worship, Assembly

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• In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Jesus, Christ, Myth

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• The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Mean, Two, Greek

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• If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Father, Believe

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• Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its up-to-date perspectives and usefulness. Jeffers writes with a breadth of expertise on the Greco-Roman world that few New Testament specialists can match.

  Craig S. Keener

  Book, Writing, Perspective

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• The interval, then, between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact, negligible, and the last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. Both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the New Testament may be regarded as finally established.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Integrity, Book, Doubt

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• The Bible never tells us to take a blind leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there's somebody out there. The Bible calls us to jump out of the darkness and into the light. That is not a blind leap. The faith that the New Testament calls us to is a faith rooted and grounded in something that God makes clear is the truth.

  R. C. Sproul

  Light, Darkness, Leap Of Faith

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• The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Artist, Promise, Drs

  Quoted in Vintage Muggeridge, ed. Geoffrey Barlow (1985)

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• Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the
  rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that cannot possibly
  be suppressed. It must be told. Who could be silent about such a fact?
  The mission of the Church in the pages of the New Testament is like the
  fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal
  but life-giving.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Jesus, Giving, Joy

  Lesslie Newbigin (2014). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society”, p.156, SPCK

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• To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Teaching, Mean, Essence

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• For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Light, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.211, Graphic Arts Books

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• The difference between the Old and the New Testament is the difference between a man who said "There is nothing new under the sun" and a God who says "Behold, I make all things new.

  Ronald Knox

  Men, Differences, Sun

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• There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

  Paul the Apostle

  Jesus, Greek, Males

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• This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes.

  Elizabeth I

  Eye, Old Testament, Lord

  "Fictional character: Elizabeth". "Elizabeth", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Man shall not live by bread alone.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Bible, Jesus, Food

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• In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Bible, Christ Consciousness, Bread Of Life

  N. Scott Momaday, Al Momaday (1969). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press

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