N. T. Wright Quotes

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• We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate…
• [Arguments about God are] like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.
• Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew…
• Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.
• All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.
• Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.
• When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure…
• Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.
• We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be…
• Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answers but because our questions don't make sense.…
• Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.
• God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the…
• God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.
• That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God the rescuer from…
• You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of…
• God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he…
• It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in…
• Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relationship, we…
• Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that…
• Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

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