N. T. Wright Quotes - Page 2

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• God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

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  Relationship, Beauty, Faith

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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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  Justice, Joy, Spirituality

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• If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

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  Christian, Self, Shadow

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• You become like what you worship

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  Idols, Idol Worship, Worship

  N. T. Wright (2011). “Revelation for Everyone”, p.92, Presbyterian Publishing Corp

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• Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

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  Love, Appreciation, Tolerance

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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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  Christian, Essence, Extras

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• He has done it. With Jesus, God’s rescue operation has been put into effect once and for all. A great door has swung open in the cosmos which can never again be shut. It’s the door to the prison where we’ve been kept chained up. We are offered freedom: freedom to experience God’s rescue for ourselves, to go through the open door and explore the new world to which we now have access.
  In listening to Jesus, we discover whose voice it is that has echoed around the hearts and minds of the human race all along.

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  Jesus, Heart, Race

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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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  Scripture, Tradition, Guides

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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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  Jesus, Dying, Looks

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• When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.

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  Reality, Glimpse, Done

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• The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.

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  Jesus, Tanks, World

  "N.T. Wright: On Jesus and Writing". Interview with Marcia Z. Nelson, www.publishersweekly.com. November 23, 2011.

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• God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.

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  Christian, People, Promise

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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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  Mean, God Love, Crosses

  N. T. Wright (2006). “Evil and the Justice of God”, IVP Books

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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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  Trying, Shows, Insufferable

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• From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

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  Two, America, Issues

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• Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

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  Christian, Thinking, Knowing

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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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  Heaven, Earth, Temples

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• Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.

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  Christmas, Light, Rooms

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.10, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

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  Knowing, People, Giving

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• Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.

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  Jesus, Justice, Working Together

  Source: sojo.net

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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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  Suffering, Victory, Church

  N. T. Wright (2006). “Evil and the Justice of God”, IVP Books

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• When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.

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  Thanksgiving, Christian, Gratitude

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• If you read 1 John you'll see that love of God and neighbour are very closely tied together. Partly this is because all humans are made in God's image, so that when you love another human you are loving someone who is reflecting God himself. Of course there is a distinction but the minute you try to drive a wedge between the two things start to fall apart.

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  Fall, Two, Loving Someone

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".

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  Mean, People, Justice

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• As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that point what God provides, exactly as for a newborn infant, is the comfort, protection, and nurturing promise of a mother. "If God is our father, the church is our mother." The words are those of the Swiss Reformer John Calvin ... it is as impossible, unnecessary, and undesirable to be a Christian all by yourself as it is to be a newborn baby all by yourself.

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  Christian, Mother, Baby

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