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Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.
N. T. Wright
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N. T. Wright
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 1
Anglican Priest
Bishop Of Durham
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Morpeth
Northumberland
Nicholas Thomas Wright
Tom Wright
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I knew that I had to be a preacher. I had to be a minister, which was a puzzle to me because my dad was a businessman. It was a family company and I assumed that I would take it on from him.
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First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way.
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To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
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...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.
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Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.
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The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.
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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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