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“but his agenda of dealing with sin and its effects and consequences was never about rescuing individual souls from the world but about saving humans so that they could become part of his project of saving the world.”
― N.T. Wright, Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues

“Since believing is looking it can be done any time. No season is superior to another season for this sweetest of all acts. God never made salvation depend upon new moons nor holy days or sabbaths. A man is not nearer to Christ on Easter Sunday than he is, say, on Saturday, August 3, or Monday, October 4. As long as Christ sits on the mediatorial throne every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God and Other Classics

“The question for us, as we learn again and again the lessons of hope for ourselves, is how we can be for the world what Jesus was for Thomas: how we can show to the world the signs of love, how we can reach out our hands in love, wounded though they will be if the love has been true, how we can invite those whose hearts have grown shrunken and shriveled with sorrow and disbelief to come and see what love has done, what love is doing, in our communities, our neighborhoods:”
― N.T. Wright, Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues

“So we should be careful to avoid “dumbing down” biblical truths into categories of human comprehension or forcing biblical truths into philosophical categories and ideas”
― Daryl Aaron, The 40 Most Influential Christians . . . Who Shaped What We Believe Today