Lisa Testa

“He had been absolutely right in his devotion to Israel and the Torah, but absolutely wrong in his view of Israel’s vocation and identity and even in the meaning of the Torah itself.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul: A Biography

“Paul’s powerful, spirit-driven proclamation of Jesus as “son of God” can hardly be called “preaching,” if by “preaching” we mean the sort of thing that goes on in churches week by week in our world. This was a public announcement, like a medieval herald or town crier walking through the streets with a bell, calling people to attention and declaring that a new king had been placed on the throne.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul: A Biography

“About Jesus as the point at which—exactly as the martyr Stephen had claimed—heaven and earth were now held together, fused together; it was about Jesus as being, in person, the reality toward which the Temple itself had pointed.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul: A Biography

“Mother Teresa is credited with saying, “God didn’t call us to be successful, just faithful.”
― Max Lucado, NCV, Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado