N. T. Wright Quotes
I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.
Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come.
By the middle of Henry VIII's reign, the white meats — that is, dairy products — were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it.
Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.
The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing.
To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.
If you posses enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find that you are not alone.
Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.
Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.
Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.
The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.
If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell.
All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling - these stories always contain truth.
I distance myself from heaven and then complain that heaven is distant.
And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.
He had touched her. Bare skin to bare skin. She needed a bleach wipe. She would absolutely use a bleach wipe on her leg. Even if it ate her flesh off.
It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before. ~Katherine Demure
How do I know you’re not the killer?” MeShack asked.A smirk plastered on Zulu’s face. “Because you would’ve been the first victim.
Dante and this Palero were definitely playing some sort of game, and I didn’t know the rules, which was fine with me. Whenever a game became too complicated, I just set the board on fire.
If you’re not good, I’ll burn your—”“Yeah, I know.” MeShack strolled to his bedroom. “You’ll burn my balls off.
We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.
She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.
Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.
Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.
Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.
....I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination.
We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better. -Bishop Milton Wright to Orville Wright, 20 Sept. 1908
For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.
Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires
What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.
It is not the spirit of wealth, of learning, or of culture that can make the church of value, or a power for good in the world, but the spirit of Christ only.
Life is but a flash of time, a momentous flicker-- in the life that we know and space we live in on earth.© VW
This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.
The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.
So I've come to the conclusion that it is thus my own fault when these people I have been talking about finally stop saying "Ah" and tell me it's a pity I always do such odd things.
A lot of people who are straight-shooting…they’re only happy to be so blunt when talking about others. They’re not so upfront about who they are, what flaws they have, and what their issues are.
If only I could tell someone.The humiliation I go throughwhen I think of my pastcan only be described as grace.We are created by being destroyed.
I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...