The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.
– JI Packer
Related Quotes:
- Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in the church, and for the church. – Kenneth S Kantzer
- Beware to entertain strangers, thereby you may entertain an angel unawares…New Testament. – New Testament in EnglishArabic
- The difference between the old Testament and the new testament is that God doesn’t want sacrifices anymore – Sunday Adelaja
- The idea of formulated ‘rights … comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson … but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. – Thomas E Woods Jr
- Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love’s only demand is that we fall. – Shaun David Hutchinson
- He gave me the one thing he’s never given to anyone before..He gave me his heart, and his trust.And in return, I gave him the same right back…. – Samantha Towle
- If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. – Isaac Newton
- What goes up must come down. – Isaac Newton
- eorum omnium actiones in se invicem – Isaac Newton
- If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants – Isaac Newton
- For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. – Isaac Newton
- Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within. – Keri Wyatt Kent
- Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within. – Keri Wyatt Kent
- …the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. – Noam Chomsky
- If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from Scripture. – Dan Phillips
- The church is not a brick-and-mortar structure. The church is made of flesh & blood. Followers of #Christ are the church. – Eric Samuel Timm
- The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation . . .God help the church to wake up! – Billy Graham
- It’s the gravity of love that makes you fall,and it’s the same force that builds you up. – Drishti Bablani
- Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity. – Robert Charles Wilson
- Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something. – Jasper Fforde
- What weighs us down is not gravity! A little force of kindness can decelerate depravity. – Igbinovia Ixrael Lee
- Satan fell by the force of gravity. – GK Chesterton
- The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior. – Boyd K Packer
- Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future. – Boyd K Packer
- Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife. – JI Packer
- What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God’s sovereignty. – JI Packer
- Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones. – JI Packer
- The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil. – Boyd K Packer
- He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity. – JI Packer
- He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity. – JI Packer
- Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him. – JI Packer
- Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator. – JI Packer
- Our are speculations are not the measure of our God. – JI Packer
- Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problems fall into place of their own accord. – JI Packer
- Don’t clock off from life, you are still standing and that is testament there is more to live. Embrace life. – Tony Curl
- Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime. – Bill Maher
- We have taken the holistic message preached in the Old Testament and New Testaments and reduced our message to the entry point into the Kingdom. – Landa Cope
- You embody the strength of 10,000 moons and your life will be a testament of it. Ase – Kierra CT Banks
- One of the most important things God wants to teach us from the Old Testament is how not to live. – Billy Graham
- The Old Testament is actually pretty raunchy. You might enjoy it. – Nicki Elson