Quotes of: Old-testament Keyword

The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.

Danse Macabre

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Full Dark, No Stars

I celebrate my birthday in ways not seen this side of the Old Testament. I celebrate my life like the Dead Sea, and my party is a BYOP (bring your own plague) event.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

From the Old Testament, containing the Atlantean Mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating his species without the co-operation of another, as is the case with some plants...

Max Heindel

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling...

Nick Cave

I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it al...

Terry Pratchett

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

A.A. Milne

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

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

The number of the devil is not 666. That is only his area code, his number is unlisted.

The Last Testament: A Memoir by God

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

The Testament of Gideon Mack

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

Charles Dickens

Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.

John Strachan

I don’t care that it has been going on since the Old Testament. Rape is wrong and I will keep fighting violent men. Everything starts with one person and the determination to see it through. Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice.

Dennis R. Miller

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god,...

Joseph Campbell

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot

Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.

So Little Done: The Testament of a Serial Killer

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.

Tony Campolo

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot