“ The Kingdom of God is a tricky concept, and I was always taught it referred to our heavenly reward for being good, which, now that I actually read the Bible for myself, makes very little sense. Others… Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ I carried a bravado about my drinking like I was a hero of debauchery. But on that Christmas Day, I felt like shit. I had a vague realisation that I was just trying to keep up with some version of mys… Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ Every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it. Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ What makes us saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God’s ability to work through sinners. Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ Of course, Mary Magdalene would have very little tolerance for the Christian platitudes and vapid optimism that seem to swirl around these kinds of tragic events. Those platitudes are tempting, but th… Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ Fear not, brothers and sisters, God, who is full of grace and abounding in steadfast love, meets us in our sin and transforms us for God's glory and the healing of God's world. In the name of the Fath… Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ Once a seminary student asked to shadow me for two days to see what my life as a pastor was like. At the end, he said, Oh my gosh, you're basically a person for a living. Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ No one is climbing the spiritual ladder. We don't continually improve until we are so spiritual we no longer need God. We die and are made new, but that's different from spiritual self-improvement. Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ My outrage feels empty because what I am desperate for is to speak the truth of my burden of sin and have Jesus take it from me, yet ranting about the system or about other people will always be my go… Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ But inevitably, when I can't harm the people who harmed me, I just end up harming the people who love me. So maybe retaliation or holding on to anger about the harm done to me doesn't actually combat… Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ We often behave as though Jesus is only interested in saving and loving a romanticized version of ourselves, or an idealized version of our mess of a world, and so we offer to him a version of our bes… Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ If the quality of my Christianity lies in my ability to be more inclusive than the next pastor, things get tricky because I will always, always encounter people—intersex people, Republicans, criminals… 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
“ Holiness is the union we experience with one another and with God. Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collective… Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ There’s a popular misconception that religion, Christianity specifically, is about knowing the difference between good and evil so that we can choose the good. But being good has never set me free the… Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ Because 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
“ There are some Christians who talk about the rapture as if the good people in heaven will be given these awesome box seats from which to watch the bad people suffer on earth. This is the good people's… Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different. Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Jesus always seems to be pairing God's forgiveness of us with our forgiveness of others. But why? Growing up, I thought it was a way of guil… Nadia Bolz-Weber
