Quote by N.T. Wright Download Open image ““the church has unhesitatingly privileged the creed and let the canon fend for itself—”” — N.T. Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The question of “canon and creed,” which underlies quite a bit of this book, has become quite urgent and controversial and needs to be… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Our church, which has been fighting in these years only for its self-preservation, as though that were an end in itself, is incapable of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“In the end, there is a normative story that we live into as a church: the story God is telling through scripture, as summarized… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“... challenge the church to do better, be more of who Christ wants us to be ...” — Justin Lee Copy Share Image
“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play in the… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The church is supposed to help the people discover their calling and reveal the Kingdom of God to them” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“When the church aligns itself politically, it gives priority to the compromises and temporal successes of the political world rather than its Christian confession… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
“The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, one by one, those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“But why is the Church so ready to embrace the culture of the unbelieving world?” — Curtis A. Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“This means that the church, the followers of Jesus Christ, live in the bright interval between Easter and the final great consummation. Let's make… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The very mention of crucifixion was taboo in polite Roman circles, since it was the lowest form of capital punishment, reserved for slaves and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Sunday, kept as a commemoration of Easter ever since that event itself (a quite remarkable phenomenon when you come to think about it), is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The point of trying to understand the cross better is not so that we can congratulate ourselves for having solved an intellectual crossword puzzle,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“there is no such thing as a god’s-eye view (by which would be meant a Deist god’s-eye view) available to human beings, a point… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The “goal” is not “heaven,” but a renewed human vocation within God’s renewed creation. This is what every biblical book from Genesis on is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“having a hard enough time explaining to his disciples that he had to die; they never really grasped that at all, and they certainly… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“If we are talking about the victory over evil and the launch of new creation, it won’t make much sense unless we are working… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The personal message of Good Friday, expressed in so many hymns and prayers which draw on the tradition of the Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53)… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Blessings on the poor in spirit! The kingdom of heaven is yours” (Matt. 5:3) doesn’t mean, “You will go to heaven when you die.”… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
