Nadia Bolz-Weber is an American theologian, New York Times bestselling author, and Lutheran minister. She served for ten years as the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado.
CLEAR ALL
Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.
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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
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The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.
We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
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