N. T. Wright Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its watch, doesn't worry what the person in the next pew is doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

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  Dark, Worry, Waiting

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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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• 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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• The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

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  Jesus, Easter, World

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

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  Sky, Shining, Sun

  "Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sens". Book by N. T. Wright, 2006.

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• 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.

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  Friday, Easter, Grief

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

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  Mean, People, Justice

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• God's kingdom is launched through Jesus and particularly through his death and resurrection; but, by the Spirit, this kingdom is not an escape from the present world but rather its transformation, already in the present (starting with Jesus' resurrection) and in the ultimate future (the new heaven and earth including our own resurrection).

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  Jesus, Heaven, World

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

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  Jesus, Generosity, Kingdoms

  N. T. Wright (2004). “Luke for Everyone”, p.80, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

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  Orthodoxy, Danger

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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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• Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world.

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  Heaven, Important, World

  "Conversation with “Tom” Wright on Resurrection, Heaven & Hope on Earth". Interview with David Crumm, www.readthespirit.com. 2008.

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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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• We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate God today, and then refuse to live passionately and compassionately tomorrow. If we say or sing, as we so often do, 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit', we thereby commit ourselves, in love, to the work of making his love known to the world that still stands so sorely in need of it. This is not the god the world wants. This is the God the world needs.

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  Father, Son, Blood

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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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• The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and we are called to do those things that truly anticipate the way God’s world WILL be.

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  Justice, World, Way

  "Ask N.T. Wright...(response)". Interview with Rachel Held Evans, rachelheldevans.com. June 11, 2013.

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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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• When Jesus's followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't tell them to divide into focus groups and look deep within their own hearts.

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  Jesus, Heart, Focus

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