#old testament

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#follow #insane #man #new #old

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#blessing #new #old #old testament #prosperity

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#evil #god #old #old testament #testament

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#framework #legislative #moses #mouth #narrative

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 #equipped #good #good works #know

For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across the nation as well as the world are offended by Bill O'Reilly claiming he's an Irish Catholic. ↗

— Stephen Bennett

#believe #bill #catholic #catholics #claiming

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

#capital punishment #guide #half #killed #matter

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like. ↗

— Bruce Kent

#charter #chosen #fundamentalist #like #old

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable. ↗

— Bono

#action #action movie #adultery #blood #car

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#gods #like #lots #mercy #old