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More Quotes by N.T. Wright
True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its watch, doesn't worry what the person in the next pew is doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.
You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.
Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved
Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.
The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.
You become like what you worship