N. T. Wright Quotes - Page 6

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• The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

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  Energy, Enabling, Spirit

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• 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

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• 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.

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  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

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• Paul believed, in fact, that Jesus had gone through death and out the other side. Jesus had gone into a new mode of physicality, for which there was no precedent and of which there was, as yet, no other example.

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  Jesus, Facts, Sides

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• Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped believing in such a being they had therefore stopped believing in God, so many who were taught to think of hell as a literal underground location full of worms and fire...decided that when they stopped believing in that, so they stopped believing in hell. The first group decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of God, they must be atheists. The second decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of hell, they must be universalists.

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  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

  "Surprised by Hope". Book by N. T. Wright, 2007.

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• I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain, as the death of Augustus in AD 14 or the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70

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  Fall, Historical, Jerusalem

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• For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to ... all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer.

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  Christian, Prayer, Our World

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• Most of the things that really matter require faith. How do I know that my wife loves me? How do I know that Mozarts Jupiter Symphony is sublime and beautiful? There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - How do I know that two plus two equals four? There are different layers, different types of knowing.

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  Beautiful, Two, Symphony

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• Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?

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  Believe, Blessed, Heart

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.104, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy

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  Song, Crazy, Writing

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• The resurrection completes the inauguration of God's kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating thet God's kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven." "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, Heaven

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• I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

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  Thinking, Generations, Upheaval

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• I'm a people person. I like being with people. So I like being a teacher, and so on.

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  Teacher, People, Being A Teacher

  "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". www.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.

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  Jesus, Kings, Sound

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• 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.

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  Christian, Art, Healing

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

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• A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

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  Jesus, Believe, Conservative

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• First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way.

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  Hands, Way, Firsts

  Source: sojo.net

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• To pray 'your kingdom come' at Jesus' bidding meant to align oneself with his kingdom movement.

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  Jesus, Bidding, Movement

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• All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

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  Christian, Language, Mist

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• Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom.

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  Jesus, Easter, Saving

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• I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.

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  Wife, Claims, My Wife

  N. T. Wright (2014). “Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship”, p.35, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’

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  Mean, Resurrection, Life After Death

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• 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

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• The logic of cross and resurrection, of the new creation which gives shape to all truly Christian living, points in a different direction. And one of the central names for that direction is joy: the joy of relationships healed as well as enhanced, the joy of belonging to the new creation, of finding not what we already had but what god was longing to give us.

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  Christian, Names, Giving

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• God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.

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  Creation, Committed, Humans

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