(30 quotes found)
“The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.”
Vance Havner
“In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.”
Thomas Erskine
“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
“All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe”
“There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, ''If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.”
Ray Charles
“The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act”
“The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.”
Alfred Whitney Griswold
“For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?”
Henry David Thoreau
“The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament”
