quotes about Old Testament
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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 -
We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.
-- Alistair Begg -
Had it been in the Old Testament Harry Potter would have been put to death.
-- Becky Fischer -
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
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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 -
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 YongeSource : Charlotte Mary Yonge (1890). “Womankind”
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Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.
-- David HarsanyiSource : "How Liberalism Destroyed the American Jew" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 10, 2013.
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I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say "our prophets."
-- Desmond Tutu -
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Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.
-- Desmond Tutu -
If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death.
-- Gerald Heaney -
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 -
Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies
-- Kenneth Copeland -
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If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.
-- Marilynne Robinson -
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. NealSource : Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.99, WaterBrook
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Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it.
-- Nelson Rockefeller -
Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is therefore called typology, though it is a typology in a special sense.
-- Northrop Frye -
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The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And Mohammed said "I have been made victorious through terror.".
-- Pamela GellerSource : Source: www.foxnews.com
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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 -
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 -
The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.
-- Saint Augustine -
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The word ezer is used only twenty other places in the entire Old Testament. And in every other instance the person being described is God himself, when you need him to come through for you desperately…
-- Stasi EldredgeSource : John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc
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The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
-- Tom Baker -
In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
-- Tullian Tchividjian -
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There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.
-- William F. Albright -
The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
-- William Jennings Bryan -
I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.
-- Luke Ford