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I realized that I had been called to proclaim the Gospel from the place where I am and proclaim where I am from the Gospel.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Those most qualified to speak the gospel are those who truly know how unqualified they are to speak the gospel.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
It's about how God continues to reach into the graves we dig for ourselves and pull us out, giving us new life, in ways both dramatic and small.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Forgiveness is a big deal to Jesus, and like that guy in high school with a garage band, he talks about it, like, all the time.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Australia seems like a really faraway Canada, just with funnier animals.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
If becoming a person of faith were more like, say, receiving a personality transplant, life would be easier.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Sin is the self curved in on the self.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Because in the end, we aren't punished for our sins as much as we are punished by our sins.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
The eunuch sought God despite the fact that he had heard that there was no love for him there.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
On All Saints' Sunday, I am faced with sticky ambiguities around saints who were bad and sinners who were good.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Shit," I thought to myself, "I'm going to be late to New Testament class.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
the thing that sucks is that every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Identity. It's always God's first move. Before we do anything wrong and before we do anything right, God has named and claimed us as God's own.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
God, please help me not be an asshole, is about as common a prayer as I pray in my life.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Sometimes the fact that there is nothing about you that makes you the right person to do something is exactly what God is looking for.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
We weren't a ship of fools so much as a rowboat of idiots.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Every time I go look for God amidst sorrow, I always find Jesus at the cross, in death and resurrection. This is our God.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Church isn't perfect. It's practice.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Truth. It can make me hate the person speaking it. Until the point at which I want to kiss them for setting me free.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Sometimes the best thing we can do for each other is talk honestly about being wrong.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
But the only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool.
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Jesus taught us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" not forgive us and smite those bastards who hurt us.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
I knew Catholics existed, with their saints and candles and rosaries, and all their other exotic ways of being wrong.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay," Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
God is always present in love and in suffering.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Sometimes help comes from unexpected places.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Oh hey, God told me to tell you something: Get over yourself.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
On some level, although we can't handle the pain of acknowledging it, Good Friday happens every day.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
The holy things we need for healing and sustenance are almost always the same as the ordinary things right in front of us.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Every human community will disappoint us, regardless of how well-intentioned or inclusive.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
The crucifixion portrayed on our show was undertaken by the son of God, a trained professional. Do not try to crucify yourself at home.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
The fact is, we are all, at once, bearers of the gospel and receivers of it. We meet the needs of others and have our needs met. And
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Everything else is temptation.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
People don't talk enough about what the freedom of a Christian looks like.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Whenever people annoy me beyond reason, I can guarantee it's because they're demonstrating something I'd rather not see in myself.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
