Bible Quote by N. T. Wright

“Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.”

N. T. Wright

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Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

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Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".

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People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

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The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of…

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We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate God today, and then refuse to live passionately and compassionately tomorrow. If we say or sing, as we so often do, 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit',…

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Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.

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“The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote: "I had enjoyed much peace there in the absence of every comfort, even of such as are now enjoyed in jail. I used to say that there were four privations in my situation - fire, water, earth and air. No fire…

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“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They…

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