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Best God Quotes by N. T. Wright
- Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom…
- The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.
- Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God’s saving, sovereign kingdom...
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- 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
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi