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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
N. T. Wright
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N. T. Wright
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 1
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The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that church for its work in the world, and that serious study of it can and should become one of the places where, and the means by which, heaven and earth interlock and God's future purposes arrive in the present.
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We have to train ourselves to use words accurately. And there's so much loose Christian talk, for which I've no doubt been as guilty as any.
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My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.
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It's not great faith you need it is faith in a great God.
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It seems to me that since the Middle Ages (it's not a Reformation thing), all that stuff about Jews and Gentiles coming together in Christ was just screened out.
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