Lent for Everyone Quotes

“Whenever God does something new, he involves people – often unlikely people, frequently surprised and alarmed people. He asks them to trust him in a new way, to put aside their natural reactions, to listen humbly for a fresh word and to act on it without knowing exactly how it’s going to work out.”
― Tom Wright, Lent for Everyone: Matthew, Year A: A Daily Devotional

“Following Jesus means denying yourself, saying ‘no’ to the things that you imagine make up your ‘self’, and finding to your astonishment that the ‘self’ you get back is more glorious, more joyful than you could have imagined.”
― N.T. Wright, Lent for Everyone: Matthew, Year A: A Daily Devotional

“Whenever God does something new, he involves people – often unlikely people, frequently surprised and alarmed people. He asks them to trust him in a new way, to put aside their natural reactions, to listen humbly for a fresh word and to act on it without knowing exactly how it’s going to work out.”
― N.T. Wright, Lent for Everyone: Matthew, Year A: A Daily Devotional

“9‘So this is how you should pray: Our father in heaven, May your name be honoured 10May your kingdom come May your will be done As in heaven, so on earth. 11Give us today the bread we need now; 12And forgive us the things we owe, As we too have forgiven what was owed to us. 13Don’t bring us into the great Trial, But rescue us from evil.”
― N.T. Wright, Lent for Everyone: Matthew, Year A: A Daily Devotional