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New 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 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.
- 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…
- When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.
- 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…
- But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to…
- 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…
- Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project.
- 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…
- I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and…
- The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines.…
- 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
- Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon…
- 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…
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- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
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