N.T. Wright Short Quotes

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God has taken us utterly seriously. How can we not do the same with him?

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Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

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All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

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All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

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The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.

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

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The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.

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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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Think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

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But if Christians don't get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

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Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

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The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.

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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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Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

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The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

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The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

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Resurrection means bodily life after 'life after death,' or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of 'death'

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Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

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The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.

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If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

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To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.

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Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

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Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

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Rest you well, beloved Jesus,
Caesar's Lord and Israel's King,
In the brooding of the Spirit,
in the darkness of the spring

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Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.

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By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy

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Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.

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One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.

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Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

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Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.

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