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- The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also…
- For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or…
- 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…
- 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…
- Most of the things that really matter require faith. How do I know that my wife loves me? How do I know that Mozarts Jupiter…
- I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be…
- All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the…
- The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.
- When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.
- Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the…
- The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to…
- Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which makes sense not…
- Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
- Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion.…
- From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps.…
- I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions…
- 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…
- 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'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…
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- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes