"[Arguments about God are] like pointing a flashlight……" — N. T. Wright

"[Arguments about God are] like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining."

— N. T. Wright

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121 Quotes by N. T. Wright

N. T. Wright has 121 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant…
The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the…
Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud…
Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure…
What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing…
For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may…
Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism,…
The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that…
It is a matter of glimpsing that in God's new creation, of which Jesus's resurrection is the start, all that…
When Jesus's followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't tell them to divide into focus groups and…
The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand…
The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole…

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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere… — David Attenborough
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids… — Margaret Atwood
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen… — Roger Bacon
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. — Lord Acton
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can… — Hosea Ballou
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. — Douglas Adams
My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments. — John Barrymore
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations… — Mario Batali
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais
Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our… — Bob Beauprez
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own… — Joseph Addison

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