Spirituality Quotes by N.T. Wright

8 Spirituality quotes by N.T. Wright

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N.T. Wright’s scholarly yet accessible voice appears in these eight brief excerpts. They offer a clear, thoughtful glimpse into his interpretation of faith and history.

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“Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.”

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“The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water…

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“Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern…

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“At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever…

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“...spirituality is a private hobby, an upmarket version of daydreaming for those who like that kind of thing.”

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“Our confidence in the future restorative justice of God may even give us confidence to do justice ourselves in the present. We…

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“[re: I Corinthians 15:34,58] "The present life of the church, in other words, is not about "soul-making," the attempt to produce or…

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“And all of this can be summed up in the phrase “forgiveness of sins.” None of it has to do with redeemed…

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“This means that the church, the followers of Jesus Christ, live in the bright interval between Easter and the final great consummation. Let's make…

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“The very mention of crucifixion was taboo in polite Roman circles, since it was the lowest form of capital punishment, reserved for slaves and…

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“Sunday, kept as a commemoration of Easter ever since that event itself (a quite remarkable phenomenon when you come to think about it), is…

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“The point of trying to understand the cross better is not so that we can congratulate ourselves for having solved an intellectual crossword puzzle,…

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“there is no such thing as a god’s-eye view (by which would be meant a Deist god’s-eye view) available to human beings, a point…

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“The “goal” is not “heaven,” but a renewed human vocation within God’s renewed creation. This is what every biblical book from Genesis on is…

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“having a hard enough time explaining to his disciples that he had to die; they never really grasped that at all, and they certainly…

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“If we are talking about the victory over evil and the launch of new creation, it won’t make much sense unless we are working…

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“The personal message of Good Friday, expressed in so many hymns and prayers which draw on the tradition of the Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53)…

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“To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the…

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“Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation…

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“Blessings on the poor in spirit! The kingdom of heaven is yours” (Matt. 5:3) doesn’t mean, “You will go to heaven when you die.”…

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“As C. S. Lewis regularly remarked, the chronological snobbery of the modern age (i.e. the assumption that anything that comes after around 1750 is…

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“The kingdom of God is, at its heart, about God’s sovereignty sweeping the world with love and power, so that human beings, each made…

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“pre-Christian Judaism, including the disciples during Jesus’s lifetime, never envisaged the death of the Messiah. That is why they never thought of his resurrection,…

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