N. T. Wright Quotes

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• It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this…
• Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less…
• One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort…
• People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went…
• The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines.…
• The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off…
• The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants…
• While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox…
• By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy
• The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all…
• Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon…
• Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
• What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,'…
• ...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that…
• We could cope—the world could cope—with a Jesus who ultimately remains a wonderful idea inside his disciples' minds and hearts. The world cannot cope with…
• the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future;…
• The resurrection completes the inauguration of God's kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating thet God's kingdom really has been launched on…
• Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life…
• Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world
• When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we…

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