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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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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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.
Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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. . . it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.
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Respect the fact that all you do and are now has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose.
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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.
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
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.