Bible Quote by Frank Moore Cross Download Open image “The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition.” — Frank Moore Cross ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bible Old and new Particular Tradition
After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune… — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The Bible is a collection of writings by lots of different people written over maybe a thousand years, from a number of centuries before… — John Goldingay Copy Share Image
The Bible, undoubtedly, is a mixed bag. I don't see myself coming back to the Church. I do like the tradition. If you come… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye,… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
I read the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs every day. — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The Bible differs from all other books in that it never wears out. Other books are read and laid aside, but the Bible is a constant companion. No matter how often we read it or how familiar we become with it, some new truth is likely to spring out at us from its pages whenever we open it, or some… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share
The text says Deuteronomy was lost, but you say it was written then. — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share
[Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all of his linguistic characteristics, and so on. We cannot determine what is historical and what isn't. As literary critics, we would understand the importance of this for understanding life, destiny. But the historical question must be left with… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share
My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
When you come to the New Testament you can't even swing a cat without hitting three demons and two spirits. And magic becomes something… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Elie [Wiesel], when you ask, "Why do I want to know," I'm trying to grab the holy. And I'm getting thrown back. — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else. — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try to achieve… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible,… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose, Sergeant,’ Anthony Payne replied. ‘That is from The Merchant of Venice, but it holds great truth.” — Michael Arnold Copy Share Image
When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell… — Lee Greenwood Copy Share Image
“Scripture also teaches that human beings are morally responsible creatures” — Robert A. Peterson Copy Share Image
“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed much peace there in the absence of every comfort, even of such as are now enjoyed in jail. I used to say that there were four privations in my situation - fire, water, earth and air. No fire… — Stephen Taylor Copy Share
O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture… — Walsham How Copy Share Image
Every plant which my heavenly father has not planted with be uprooted — Jesus Christ Copy Share Image
Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
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