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N. T. Wright

" Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea. "

Tea , Riot

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" If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus. And go on looking until you’re not just a spectator, but you’re actually part of the drama which has him as the central character. "

Grief , Drama , Jesus

" 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. "

Death , Hope , Christian

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

Culture , Heaven , Dying

" 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. "

World , Christian , Healing , Our

" It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God. "

God , Greatness , Great , needs

" Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about. "

Prayer , Jesus

" People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible. "

People

" Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved "

Feet , Knees

" You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship. "

Worship , Character

" What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom. "

Writing , Teaching , Caring

" Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder. "

Love , Virtue , Tolerance

" The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God. "

Heart , Character , Window

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