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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
We can't fully appreciate the sweetness of the New Testament without the savory of the Old Testament.
— Jen Wilkin
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
— William Blake
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the Newthe Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance. — Mark Twain
The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
— William Jennings Bryan
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
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
Why does the Old Testament law never punish anyone by depriving him of his freedom?
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
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
Daniel 12:3 ... and those who turn the many to righteousness will shine the stars forever.
— Craig W. Dressler
My mother turned out to be a Biblical Myth; from that part of the Old Testament where God gets really angry.
— Simon R. Green
The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.
— Aleister Crowley
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.
— David Harsanyi
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
Well, I'll stick to the Old Testament, picking it to pieces usually doesn't upset people quite so much.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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
Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.
— Andre Simon
The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament.
— Robert Jeffress
If you have the Old Testament at home, if you flip the corner pages, you can see Jesus riding a horse.
— Gilbert Gottfried
Everyone will have noticed how the Old Testament seems at times to ignore our conception of the individual.
— C.S. Lewis
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
The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.
— Saint Augustine
One of the most important things God wants to teach us from the Old Testament is how not to live.
— Billy Graham
Saint Augustine said that the New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old is revealed in the New.
— Scott Hahn
The consistency of the Old Testament warnings for the covenant community formed a natural bridge to the New Testament warnings.
— Scot McKnight
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
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
— Ray Bradbury
The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
— Edith Hamilton
May God deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament and talks against the Old!
— D.L. Moody
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
— Philip Yancey
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
This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.
— Ann Coulter
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
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
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
— Benjamin Whichcote
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
