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.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.
'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.