Bible: New Testament Acts

Famous quotes containing the words testament acts, testament and/or acts:

    The Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
    —Bible: New Testament Acts 17:21.

    The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The reader is nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I can’t forgive my friends for dying; I don’t find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
    Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)