Quotes and Sayings about New testament
"Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Faith, Commitment, Example, New testament, Order)
"Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: New testament, Sense)
"Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: New testament, Sense)
"The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Time, Christian, New testament, World)
"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
(Related: Bible, New testament, Nothing, Old)
"The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: God, Truth, End, Error, Mankind, New testament, Old, Salvation)
"Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?"
- John Clayton
(Related: Faith, History, Church, Christ, New testament, Worship)
"Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century."
- John Clayton
(Related: Creation, New testament, Questions, Worship)
"Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ."
- John Nelson Darby
(Related: Christ, New testament, Nothing)
"In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude."
- Thomas Erskine
(Related: Religion, Gratitude, Ethics, Grace, New testament)
"Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it."
- John Gresham Machen
(Related: Conservative, Criticism, Liberal, New testament, Theology)
"Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents."
- Josh McDowell
(Related: Information, New testament)
"The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place."
- Josh McDowell
(Related: New testament)
"Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities."
- Thomas Paine
(Related: Religion, New testament)
"A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man."
- Orson Pratt
(Related: God, Doctrine, Man, New testament, Scripture, Will)
"So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm."
- Paul Ricoeur
(Related: New testament, Old)
"I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction."
- Bob Riley
(Related: Love, God, Hope, Care, Direction, New testament, Right)
"The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times."
- Philip Schaff
(Related: Design, Literary, New testament, Style)
"The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'"
- Philip Schaff
(Related: Christ, New testament, Sense, Word)
"Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head."
- John Strachan
(Related: Names, New testament)
"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
(Related: Church, Lies, New testament, Nothing, Old, Open)
"It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?"
- Randall Terry
(Related: Christian, Fun, New testament)
"It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion."
- Noah Webster
(Related: Religion, Christian, Bible, Desire, New testament, Principles, Republican, Writer)
"As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself."
- Julius Wellhausen
(Related: God, New testament, Question, Unity, Worship)