Testament Quotes

The New Testament is not a historical document.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New 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.

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

The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.

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.

The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.

I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.

Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made.

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

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

I'm a New Testament Christian. I reject and throw out titles.

I believe that it was a testament to the change of power from the company to the fans because the more the fans ate it up, the more the company gave them what they want.

There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

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.

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.

It's a true testament to say that there are no small roles in Hollywood. People say, "Oh, I just said one line." or "I was walking in the background." Don't deny humble beginnings.

The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history

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

This women/ killer was a testament to my theory that the crazier you are, the more calories you burn. That's why psychos are always so skinny.

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

It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors.

In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.

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

Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.

Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No different weight is given to one or the other.

I find myself a little uncomfortable in the New Testament environment. And this is also true of what I would call late Judaism, the Judaism of the Second Temple and later.

The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

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.

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.

it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.

The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket.

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

Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career - how many tickets are sold.

Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.

The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

The New Testament states that man cannot serve two masters. He must choose one -God, and not the other - money. For what man chooses will reveal his heart.

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

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.

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.

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.

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.