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World Quotes by N. T. Wright
- The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also…
- For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or…
- 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…
- 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…
- We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdom…goes out into…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and we are called…
- 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 is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the…
- Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its…
- The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to…
- Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.
- 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…
- Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
More World Quotes
- I learned one most important thing in my life. That nonody in this whole world can understand you correctly. Except yourself. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Being a honest n nice person is most difficult thing in this world. As nobody likes the company of a person that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson