The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
Interpretation
The cross provides profound insights into the true nature and love of God.
This quote by N. T. Wright emphasizes that the crucifixion of Jesus, symbolized by the cross, reveals the core attributes of GodβHis love, sacrifice, and depth of character. It suggests that understanding God requires a deep reflection on the significance of the cross, as it encapsulates the essence of His relationship with humanity.
In practice
This quote can be used in a sermon to illustrate God's love.
The resurrection completes the inauguration of God's kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating thet God's kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven." "The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.
True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its watch, doesn't worry what the person in the next pew is doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.
Most of the things that really matter require faith. How do I know that my wife loves me? How do I know that Mozarts Jupiter Symphony is sublime and beautiful? There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - How do I know that two plus two equals four? There are different layers, different types of knowing.
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.
There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
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