Old Testament Quotes

Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament.

I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but nobody has read him.

Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

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

The Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament says there is no new thing under the sun. We can also say there is no new thing above the sun!

The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

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

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.

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.

Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.

You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament.

The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament, in the light of the new revelation given by Christ and the Holy Spirit.

The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament.

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

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.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.

Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly compassionate. He's not a one-dimensional figure at all.

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

Justin Martyr says that he was impressed in his study of the Old Testament, at the seriousness and contents of these writings, and became convinced that Jesus fulfilled these texts.

If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death.

We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light of the end of the story – i.e. in the light of Christ

That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.

One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.

Had it been in the Old Testament Harry Potter would have been put to death.

The Quran is many different things, and we also have to see the Quran almost as a secondary source commenting on the Old Testament.

The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.

In the beginnings, God Mother separates the earth from the heavens.

And our Divine Parents have been molding God Child’s soul from stardust. And They have been breathing life-breath into its nose, and God Child’s soul has been existing as a Soul of Life.

Jesus is supposed to be the Alpha and the Omega, but in the Bible he's neither. He's stuck in the middle like the letter Q.

First, I have not minded so much leaving the Garden because God, blessed be his holy name, has never abandoned us.

The greatest importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls...lies in the discovery of biblical manuscripts dating back to only about 300 years after the close of the Old Testament canon.

Mine is the only view that appropriately combines the end-time messianic expectations of the Jews with Christian scripture.

Intellectualism is a poor master over passion

Jesus recognized that God within him and became Christ - so did Siddhartha Gautama and became Buddha - so did I - and so can you.

Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.

Daniel 12:3 "...and those who turn the many to righteousness will shine the stars forever.

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.