Quotes about Spirituality
Those who choose to live without God will one day find that they have forfeited their likeness to him.
- NT Wright
Beauty matters, dare I say, almost as much as spirituality and justice.5 Of course, if you have to choose between beautiful slavery and an ugly Exodus, you must go for the Exodus, but, as William Temple said in a different (though related) context, fortunately we don't have to make that choice.
- NT Wright
We mustn't imagine that our feeling of being close to God is a true index of the reality.
- NT Wright
So, then, since the person you are and the world God has made will be gloriously reaffirmed in God's eventual future, you must be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that in the Lord your labour is not in vain." Belief in the bodily resurrection includes the belief that what is done in the present in the body, by the power of the Spirit, will be reaffirmed in the eventual future, in ways at which we can presently only guess.
- NT Wright
Many devout Christians accepted that unbiblical cosmology, opting for a detached spirituality (a heavenly-mindedness with a questionable earthly use) and an escapist eschatology (leaving the world and going to heaven).
- NT Wright
The alternative teaching of the Gnostics had proposed that one should replace the very Jewish message of God's kingdom on earth as in heaven by a very non-Jewish message about a "kingdom" that turned out to be a new form of self-help spirituality. The
- NT Wright
We are saved not as souls but as wholes. (All
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To be baptized was therefore to die and rise with Jesus, to leave behind the old life and to be reborn into the new one.
- NT Wright
My fourth starting-point towards a fresh approach is to insist on some kind of lectio continua, both personally and publicly. There are, to be sure, many times and occasions when we need to choose special readings to suit a particular moment or challenge. But the church's staple diet ought to be to work through the books of the Bible on a more or less continuous loop.
- NT Wright
The Bible is part of God's answer to the ancient human quest for justice, spirituality, relationship, and beauty. Read it and see.
- NT Wright
The Temple was, after all, the place where heaven and earth met. Why not say that one particular person might be the ultimate example of the same phenomenon, a person equally at home in both dimensions?
- NT Wright
If we spend time in the prayer of lament, new light may come, rather than simply the repetition of things we might have wanted to say anyway.
- NT Wright