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At the heart of Christian ethic is humility at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

N. T. Wright

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N. T. Wright
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 1
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Nicholas Thomas Wright
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The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.
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For now we see the beauty of God through a glass, darkly, but then face to face now we appreciate only in part, but then we shall affirm and appreciate God, even as the living God has affirmed and appreciated us. So now our tasks are worship, mission, and management, these three but the greatest of these is worship.
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Logic cannot comprehend love so much the worse for logic.
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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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