"Our culture is so fixated on dying and……" — N. T. Wright
"Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth."
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121 Quotes by N. T. Wright
N. T. Wright has 121 quotes on this site.
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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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