Old Testament famous quotes

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

#Islamic #Rights #Old Testament

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

#Scripture #Christ #Old Testament

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

#Potters #Old Testament #Testament

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

#Belief #Old Testament #Denominations

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

#Teenager #Book #Old Testament

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

#Doubt #Old Testament #Richness

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

#People #Old Testament #Peril

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

#Inspiration #Old Testament #Prophet

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

#Wife #Old Testament #Figures

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

#Law #Death Penalty #Old Testament

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

#Order #Earth #Old Testament

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

#Jesus #Heart #Old Testament

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

#Would Be #Old Testament #Summary

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

#Angel #Spirit #Old Testament

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

#Benefits #Old Testament #Testament

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

#Special #Old Testament #Type

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 Geller

#Violence #Old Testament #Made

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

#Doctrine #Old Testament #Good Work

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

#Lying #Church #Old Testament

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

#Christian #Old Testament #New Testament

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 Eldredge

#Needs #Twenties #Old Testament

Nature is God's Old Testament.
-- Theodore Parker

#Nature #Old Testament #Testament

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

#Reading #Fantasy #Old Testament

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

#Enough #Old Testament #Good Work

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

#Doubt #Tradition #Old Testament

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
-- William Jennings Bryan

#Law #Old Testament #New Testament

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

#Kind #Old Testament #British