N. T. Wright Quotes

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• [Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy…
• The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also…
• Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped…
• Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of…
• What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy,…
• For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or…
• Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the…
• The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that church for its work in…
• It is a matter of glimpsing that in God's new creation, of which Jesus's resurrection is the start, all that was good in the original…
• When Jesus's followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't tell them to divide into focus groups and look deep within their own…
• The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no less a hand…
• The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.
• Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is…
• We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdom…goes out into…
• The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.
• Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.
• The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.
• My proposal is not that we understand what the word ‘god’ means and manage somehow to fit Jesus into that. Instead, I suggest that we…
• The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor is it at…
• The whole point of what -Jesus was up to was that he was doing close up, in the present, what he was promising long-term in…

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