"Someone who is determinedly trying to show God……" — N. T. Wright
"Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig."
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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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St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a…
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Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and…
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If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and…
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the…
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I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working.…
— Robertson Davies
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Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just…
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Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she…
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Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he…
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She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.
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Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The only fantasy it has to offer is the illusion that the world is…
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