N. T. Wright Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

  N. T. Wright

  Heaven, Dying, Culture

• 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.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Mean, Baptism

• We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdom…goes out into the world vulnerable, suffering, praising, praying, misunderstood, misjudged, vindicated, celebrating: always – as Paul puts it in one of his letters – bearing in the body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Book, Misunderstood

• My proposal is not that we understand what the word ‘god’ means and manage somehow to fit Jesus into that. Instead, I suggest that we think historically about a young Jew, possessed of a desperately risky, indeed apparently crazy, vocation, riding into Jerusalem in tears, denouncing the Temple, and dying on a Roman cross-and that we take our courage in both hands and allow our meaning for the word ‘god’ to be recentered around that point.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Crazy, Mean

• 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.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Dying, Looks

• 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.

  N. T. Wright

  Dream, Thinking, Race

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