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God Quotes by N. T. Wright
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.
- 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…
- 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…
- Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in…
- It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.
- Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer to…
- All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the…
- The power of the gospel lies[...] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of evil have been…
- The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
- True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its watch, doesn't worry…
- If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.
- The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and we are called…
More God Quotes
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- To whom God will, there be the victory. — William Shakespeare
- Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has… — Michele Bachmann
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures… — Benjamin Carson