Top 1200 Old Testament Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If we compare the present state of the New Testament text with that of any other ancient writing, we must... declare it to be marvelously correct. Such has been the care with which the New Testament has been copied - a care which has doubtless grown out of true reverence for its holy words.... The New Testament is unrivaled among ancient writings in the purity of its test as actually transmitted and kept in use.

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

I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.

We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.

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.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say. That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express.

If you have the Old Testament at home, if you flip the corner pages, you can see Jesus riding a horse.

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.

There's great poetry in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And I'm not interested in trying to prove whether this paragraph is as it was or as it should have been or should not be. My pursuit is to find the truth for me in those stories and make them apropos. The important thing is that people wrote them. These were inspirational stories, and you got to see them that way. If you don't, you'll get in trouble. So I'm not going to spend a lot of time trying to find out whether or not Mary was a virgin. What do I care about Mary being a virgin?

Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

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.

There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.

I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.

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

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

The President said that Gold told him to invade Iraq. You see that's what happens when you mix New Testament and Old Milwaukee.

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.

Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.

Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job.

Do you not know that the God of the Old Testament orders the Jews to consume and enslave the peoples of the earth?

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.

This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

Jerusalem is not the oldest city in the Western world, but its long and confused past takes us back to pre-Old Testament times.

The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.

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

Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.

To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as the New Testament.

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.

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

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.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

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

Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.

In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

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

The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

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

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.

We are sometimes told that we are not a biblical church. We are a biblical church. This wonderful testament of the Old World, this great and good Holy Bible is one of our standard works. We teach from it. We bear testimony of it. We read from it. It strengthens our testimony. And we add to that this great second witness, the Book of Mormon, the testament of the New World, for as the Bible says, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall [all things] be established" (2 Cor. 13:1).

Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it.

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.

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.