Creation is good, but it is not God. It is beautiful, but its beauty is at present transient. It is in pain, but that pain is taken into the very heart of God and becomes part of the pain of new birth.
— N.T. Wright (b. 1948), Neutestamentler, Theologe und ehemaliger Bischof von Durham
Source: Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (über goodreads, Wortlaut nicht gegengeprüft)
Topics: Suffering & the Question of God, Hope & Confidence, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Occasions: Comfort, For Reflection
N.T. Wright
Nicholas Thomas Wright ist ein britischer Neutestamentler, anglikanischer Theologe und ehemaliger Bischof von Durham. Bekannt wurde er durch historische Arbeiten über Jesus und Paulus sowie seine Beteiligung an der „Neuen Paulusperspektive“, deren Verständnis der Rechtfertigung im konservativ-reformierten Spektrum anhaltende Kritik hervorrief. Bibellesern erschließt sein Werk die jüdischen Kontexte des Neuen Testaments und stellt die leibliche Auferstehung sowie die Erneuerung der Schöpfung in das Zentrum christlicher Hoffnung.
All quotes by N.T. Wright (533)
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
Henri Nouwen
Ultimately mourning means facing what wounds us in the presence of One who can heal.
Henri Nouwen
C.S. Lewis
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
Henri Nouwen
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Etty Hillesum
God writes straight even on crooked lines.
Paul Claudel
God lets us walk no path that he himself has not walked, and on which he does not go ahead of us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer