Testament Quotes

Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it

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!

I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.

The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.

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.

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.

I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.

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.

If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's a testament to "that's part of our culture, that's part of our history."

It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

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.

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.

The New Testament never once warns us that humbly seeking and praying for spiritual gifts will bring anything other than a blessing.

There is heat in freezing...be a testament!

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New 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.

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.

It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

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 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.

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

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

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

Intellectualism is a poor master over passion

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

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind

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.

I can recall quite clearly the journey from Omaha to San Francisco which I made with the opera troupe

Don't use your past history as an excuse to be miserable. Use your past as a testament to show the world just how far you have come.

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.

Indeed, these people are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.

Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.

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

For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth." -

In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.

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.

Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within.

The difference between the old Testament and the new testament is that God doesn’t want sacrifices anymore

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.

A will can save one’s family from being put into a quagmired pit of legal conundrum, in case of death (which may even be untimely).