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Creation Quotes by N. T. Wright
- 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 New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.
- 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…
- The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation…
- All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the…
- Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new…
- Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world…
- Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Creation Quotes
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter… — Frederick Lenz
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say,… — Jimmy Carter
- Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could… — Willa Cather
- Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved… — Albert Einstein