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Present Quotes by N. T. Wright
- 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…
- 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…
- What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event…
- All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the…
- 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…
- ...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that…
- 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;…
- Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.
- 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 Present Quotes
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of… — Dalai Lama
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet