Paul Ricoeur Quotes

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.

The Bible is a history book.

I read the entire Old Testament and New Testament.

The New Testament is not a historical document.

Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.

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.

Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.

My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.

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.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.

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.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

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.

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people and the birth of Christianity.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.

The Bible is … authoritative on everything of which it speaks. And it speaks of everything.

Bible is more reliable than tradition

Women can perform many duties which are useful in the church, but they were not called for priesthood. We are not to be blamed for this because this is not our teaching, it is the, Biblical teaching. If you can find one single example in the Bible, whether in the Old Testament or in the New Testament, we are ready to accept it. We are not against the words of God. We accept the words of God. But we cannot add new teachings.