Thomas Paine Quotes

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

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 a history book.

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.

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

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

It is fair to say the New Testament is the most ethically sophisticated of the great scriptures; the proper comparison for the Qur'an is with the Old Testament - against which it holds its own.

I've read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover.

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.

Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.

If you love god, burn a church.

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

I wonder that a prophet doesn’t laugh whenever he sees another prophet.

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.

When we turn to the New Testament, we find not one single passage at all calculated to disturb the conscience of an honest slaveholder.

All books except the Old and New are to be brought to the cathedral-square where they will be burned to ashes.

If God had been a Liberal there wouldn't have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions.

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

Even if you aren't a believer, there are incredible stories in the 'good book' that I guarantee you will keep you glued to the page. The Bible is no less a part of our cultural heritage than Shakespeare is - and by the way, Shakespeare's plays are absolutely loaded with Biblical references.

I know all the books of the Bible.

I read the entire Old Testament and New Testament.

Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.