N. T. Wright Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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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  Heaven, Dying, Culture

• The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

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  Eye, Swings, Long

  "Bishop's Heaven: Is There Life After the Afterlife?" by Martin Bashir, abcnews.go.com. February 26, 2008.

• Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.

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  Christian, Jesus, Challenges

• The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy

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  Prayer, Children, Ocean

• I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.

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  Wish, India, Culture

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

• In the United States at present the 'culture wars' of the last thirty years have now produced a horrid stand-off which compels you all into a binary either/or with all kinds of spin-offs. This is deeply unhealthy. The trouble is that the way the system is set up in order to get in and try to change it you have to be (a) a millionaire, (b) someone who can work inside the system long-term, (c) someone prepared to make deals and compromises... Which does rule out the vast majority of committed Christians.

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  Christian, War, Order

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