Old Testament Quotes

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

Computers, Old, Rules

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Today, Old, Follow

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

Adversity, Old, Blessing

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 vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
Bono

Jesus, Old, Makes

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 the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.
Jimmy Carter

Try, Old, Speak

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.
Rick Warren

Time, Good, Power

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. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.
Bono

God, Car, Children

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.
Joni Mitchell

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

Old, Musicians, Army

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 Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist.
Julie Burchill

God, Understand, Christian

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
Randall Terry

Nothing, Old, Lies

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.
Randall Terry

Good, Someone, Old

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.
Adam Clarke

Men, Words, Old

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.
Luke Ford

History, Old, American

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.
Paul Ricoeur

Old, Within, Mouth

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
Tom Baker

Science, Old, Reading

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.
Steve Allen

Tomorrow, Old, Matter

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

Fear, Old, Belief

For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across the nation as well as the world are offended by Bill O'Reilly claiming he's an Irish Catholic.
Stephen Bennett

Old, Nation, Irish

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.
Bruce Kent

Problem, Old, Read

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