Quotes by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Nadia Bolz-Weber (b. 1969) — Pastorin, Autorin · Lutherisch · USA
Nadia Bolz-Weber (* 1969) ist eine US-amerikanische lutherische Pastorin und Publizistin, die 2008 in Denver die Gemeinde „House for All Sinners and Saints“ gründete. Sie gilt als prominente Stimme des progressiven Protestantismus und verbindet traditionelle Liturgie mit einer Theologie radikaler Gnade für gesellschaftliche und religiöse Außenseiter. Bibellesern vermittelt sie einen ungeschönten Blick auf menschliches Scheitern und göttliche Annahme, während ihre progressive Sexualethik und ihr provokanter Sprachstil in konservativen Kreisen scharf kritisiert werden.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Grace & Redemption, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Humility & Pride, Relationships & Family, Meaning & Identity, Wisdom & Understanding, Discipleship, Church & Congregation
Quotes by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Never once did Jesus scan the room for the best example of holy living and send that person out to tell others about him. He always sent stumblers and sinners. I find that comforting.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Identity. It's always God's first move. Before we do anything wrong and before we do anything right, God has named and claimed us as God's own.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Sometimes the fact that there is nothing about you that makes you the right person to do something is exactly what God is looking for.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
The movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can't, through our piety or goodness, move closer to God. God is always coming near to us. Most especially in the Eucharist and in the stranger.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
We want to go to God for answers, but sometimes what we get is God's presence.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Purity most often leads to pride or to despair, not to holiness. Because holiness is about union with, and purity is about separation from.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
What God claims to love, do not deem unworthy of that love. What God has called good, do not call anything other than good. What God has animated with God's own breath and endowed with a soul and God's own image, do not treat with anything less than dignity.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Because in the end, we aren't punished for our sins as much as we are punished by our sins.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
It has been my experience that what makes us the saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God's ability to work through sinners.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Every human community will disappoint us, regardless of how well-intentioned or inclusive.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Sometimes the best thing we can do for each other is talk honestly about being wrong.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Whenever people annoy me beyond reason, I can guarantee it's because they're demonstrating something I'd rather not see in myself.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
My Christian faith tells me that good news is only good if it is for everyone, otherwise it's just ideology.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
People have been fed spoonfuls of nonsense and told it was Jesus.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
In the end, the only real love in the world is found when you let yourself be truly known.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
The holy things we need for healing and sustenance are almost always the same as the ordinary things right in front of us.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Those most qualified to speak the gospel are those who truly know how unqualified they are to speak the gospel.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
But we've lost the plot if we use religion as the place where we escape from difficult realities instead of as the place where those difficult realities are given meaning.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
A sexual ethic that includes concern means seeing someone as a whole person and not just a willing body.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Sources: wikipedia.org, thegospelcoalition.org, medium.com, cac.org
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