Paul Ricoeur Quotes

Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.

Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching.

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

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

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.

Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity.

The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.

Moses is our true founding father.

Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

The Law of Moses became the font and spring of constitutional government.

God handed his word to Moses. He didn't need the Tennessee General Assembly's help.

Thousands of years ago there were people who complained that Moses had only 10 commandments instead of 12.

That the judicial laws of God, as they were delivered by Moses ... be a rule to all the courts in this jurisdiction

We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say. That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express.

That's what we have with the Old Testament and the New Testament: good storytelling.

If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

The most enduring Top 10 ever written wasn't written at all, but chiseled onto stone tablets and conveyed down Mount Sinai by Moses, who introduced to the world not just a set of Biblical precepts but also a new format for starting arguments: the list of 10 things.

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.

Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!