N. T. Wright Quotes About Healing

Quotes about: Healing

• Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.

  N. T. Wright

  Death, Christian, Hope

• Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Healing, Our World

  "The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is". Book by N. T. Wright, 1999.

• I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be held there, God is able to bring healing to us and new possibilities to our lives. That is, of course, what Good Friday and Easter are all about.

  N. T. Wright

  Friday, Easter, Grief

• the life of Jesus recapitulates key elements in the earlier story of Israel. For a moment, as Jesus stands on the mountain giving the famous sermon, he is Moses. For a moment, answering his critics about his actions on the sabbath, he is David. For a moment, as he calls and names the twelve disciples, he is perhaps Jacob, bringing the twelve patriarchs into the world. For a moment, healing the sick and raising the dead, he is Elijah or Elisha. And so on. In the transfiguration he actually meets Moses and Elijah.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Healing, Names

• It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Art, Healing

  FaceBook post by N. T. Wright from Jun 22, 2013

• It is faith that looks up at the creator God and knows him to be the God of love. And it is faith that looks out at the world with the longing to bring that love to bear in healing reconciliation, and hope.

  N. T. Wright

  Healing, Creator God, Looks

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.45, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

  N. T. Wright

  Healing, Pride, Greed

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.56, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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