The work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.
There can never be suffering in the home of a person who is working for world's salvation.
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Dada Bhagwan
We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for greater comfort and the...
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Anonymous
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.
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Isaac Asimov
May God deliver us from self-righteous judging and make us, instead, merciful carriers of Christ's salvation and freedom everywhere we go. Jesus 'came into the world to save sinners, ' the apostle Paul wrote, even considering himself to be the 'worst' of the lot (1...
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Jim Cymbala
The sinner is saved to be a saint by the Saviour.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
More Quotes By N.T. Wright
Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the astonishing naivety which decreed that America as a whole was a pure, innocent victim, so that the world could be neatly divided up into evil people (particularly Arabs) and good...
..left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present..is to live as...
What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead, ' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.
All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.
Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail, ' but it has nothing to do with morals,...
