N. T. Wright Quotes
If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus. And go on looking until you’re not just a spectator, but you’re actually part of the drama which has him as the central character.
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
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If we understand our own times, we will know that we should affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of materialism and naturalism in the world of the mind. With the assistance of many friends I have developed a strategy for doing this. … We call our strategy the 'wedge.'
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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
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I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.
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If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus. And go on looking until you’re not just a spectator, but you’re actually part of the drama which has him as the central character.
