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The difference between the old Testament and the new testament is that God doesn't want sacrifices anymore — Sunday Adelaja

This is Ahab, that's Jezebel," said Evie, who was one of those who name animals after the less successful characters of Old Testament history. — E. M. Forster

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

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

Every incident in the Old Testament was considered to pre-figure in allegory what was to come in the New. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Sadistic is the word for it. God in the Old Testament wasn't anyone's pal. — Tiffany Reisz

We can't fully appreciate the sweetness of the New Testament without the savory of the Old Testament. — Jen Wilkin

The Old Testament is actually pretty raunchy. You might enjoy it. — Nicki Elson

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art. — William Blake

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

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

Jews are just like everyone else, only more so. — Lionel Blue

Angels are spirit beings who are mentioned more than 250 times in both the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible. — Mary C. Neal

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus. — Mark Galli

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

The Old Testament may not seem relevant to us today - but it is, because it is part of God's Holy Word, and He has much to teach us through its pages. — Billy Graham

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. — Jim Adam

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime. — Bill Maher

You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament. — Steven Wright

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

Why does the Old Testament law never punish anyone by depriving him of his freedom? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Amy likes to play God when she's not happy. Old Testament God. — Gillian Flynn

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

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

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book. — Billy Bob Thornton

As for diet, there is no biblical diet that is required for God's people today as there was in the Old Testament. — David Cloud

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

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. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work. — Philip Yancey

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

Lamentations' testimony is bitter, raw, and largely unhealed. Its poems use 'wounded words' to illumine pain and resist God's acts in the world. — Kathleen M. O'Connor

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

I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved. Sometimes women do. — Gillian Flynn

As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible. — Abdullah Of Saudi Arabia

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. — Thomas Paine

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

Nature is God's Old Testament. — Theodore Parker

By praying "his" prayers - the Psalms of the Old Testament, which Jesus prayed - we effectively piggyback on them all the way to heaven. — Eric Metaxas

(For instance, it is a "hate crime" to quote certain politically incorrect verses from the Bible, especially the Old Testament, in any public arena.) — Peter Kreeft

The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament. — Robert Jeffress

The Old Testament cannot give us a total revelation of God by itself. We need the New Testament to understand the full revelation. — Paul Silway

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

Saint Augustine said that the New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old is revealed in the New. — Scott Hahn

One of the most important things God wants to teach us from the Old Testament is how not to live. — Billy Graham

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed. — Saint Augustine

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

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

Everyone will have noticed how the Old Testament seems at times to ignore our conception of the individual. — C.S. Lewis

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

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

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

The only words worth repeating are from the Old Testament or Oscar Wilde. — Barry Gifford

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

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

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this. — Ziggy Marley

Well, I'll stick to the Old Testament, picking it to pieces usually doesn't upset people quite so much. — Robert A. Heinlein

Daniel 12:3 ... and those who turn the many to righteousness will shine the stars forever. — Craig W. Dressler

The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament, in the light of the new revelation given by Christ and the Holy Spirit. — Gary North

My mother turned out to be a Biblical Myth; from that part of the Old Testament where God gets really angry. — Simon R. Green

Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac? — Thomm Quackenbush

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

You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics — Jeri Massi

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

Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath. — Laird Barron

Contrary to popular opinion, the Old Testament is not a single book with one unified view of who God is and how life works. — Anonymous

May God deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament and talks against the Old! — D.L. Moody

The resurrection power of Jesus broke Satan's captive power. When He led the Old Testament saints from paradise to heaven, He led captivity captive! — Leon Morris

The consistency of the Old Testament warnings for the covenant community formed a natural bridge to the New Testament warnings. — Scot McKnight

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

Each genre and part of the Old Testament looks toward Christ and informs us about who he is in some way that the others do not. — Timothy Keller

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

The past doesn't change, does it?"
"It's still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older. — Paul McAuley

OT Old Testament — Anonymous

Let my people go — Anonymous

He's an Old Testament guy. He believes in punishment, a God of vengeance and hatred. He's a hater himself. — Phil Harvey

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

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

We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament. — Adrian McKinty

The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God. — G.K. Chesterton

Today, many Christians don't seem concerned about the Old Testament, but apparently God still has concern for His Law, all the way to the end of time. — Jim Bakker

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

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament. — Aleister Crowley

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

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their "gospel" doesn't even need it! — Scot McKnight

1. Old Testament narratives are not allegories or stories filled with hidden meanings — Gordon D. Fee

The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through. — Philip Yancey

If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates. — Andy Stanley

If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves. — Marilynne Robinson

Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

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! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We have taken the holistic message preached in the Old Testament and New Testaments and reduced our message to the entry point into the Kingdom. — Landa Cope

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

John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets. — Leonard Ravenhill

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

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

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

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

Old Testament prophets. 'You savvy dis fetish thing? — William Boyd

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament. — Benjamin Disraeli

The number of authors in the Old Testament suggests that it is a community document, almost like a Wikipedia article. — Tripp York