"Of course there are people who think of……" — N. T. Wright
"Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race."
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121 Quotes by N. T. Wright
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[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant…
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The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the…
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Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud…
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Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure…
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What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing…
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For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may…
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Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism,…
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The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that…
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It is a matter of glimpsing that in God's new creation, of which Jesus's resurrection is the start, all that…
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When Jesus's followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't tell them to divide into focus groups and…
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The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand…
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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 am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
— Karen Armstrong
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely…
— Douglas Adams
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During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem…
— John Boehner
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
— George Carlin
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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill
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I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
— Jarvis Cocker
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There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
— Paulo Coelho
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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that…
— William Ames
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven…
— Isaac Asimov
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The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.
— Woody Allen
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I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.
— Woody Allen
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