William Faulkner
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
"You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith."
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Old Testament
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Elizabeth I
Queen
"This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed."
Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible."
Aleister Crowley
Occultist, Writer
"The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament."
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"I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say "our prophets.""
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"There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy."
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"Nature is God's Old Testament."
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"You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament."
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"The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament."
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"If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death."
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