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Simply 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 church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no less a hand…
- 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…
- 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…
- From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps.…
- 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 work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future;…
- 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.
- 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…
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