Testament Quotes
382 quotes by 277 authors
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
— Francis Bacon
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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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…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A…
— Annie Besant
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy -…
— Annie Besant
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a…
— Bono
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I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery.…
— Bono
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I'm a Christian…
— Julie Burchill
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There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the…
— Tony Campolo
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
— Joseph Campbell
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Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.
— Tony Campolo
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I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul,…
— Jimmy Carter
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When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take…
— Jimmy Carter
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I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the…
— Nick Cave
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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.'
— Ray Charles
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the…
— Maya Angelou
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In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin…
— W S Merwin
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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…
— H. L. Mencken
Who Wrote These Testament Quotes
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