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Heaven Quotes by N. T. Wright
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
- Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less…
- People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went…
- The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off…
- 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…
- Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world
- Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.
- 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…
More Heaven Quotes
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many… — Teresa of Avila
- Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being… — Dan Aykroyd
- The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and… — Michele Bachmann
- Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker
- A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? — James A. Baldwin