Nadia Bolz-Weber Quote

Jesus says, Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me. He says, The first shall be last and the last shall be first, and infuriating things like if you seek to find your life you will lose it but those who lose their life will find it. And every single time I die to something—my notions of my own specialness, my plans and desires for something to be a very particular way—every single time I fight it and yet every single time I discover more life and more freedom than if I had gotten what I wanted.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

Jesus says, Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me. He says, The first shall be last and the last shall be first, and infuriating things like if you seek to find your life you will lose it but those who lose their life will find it. And every single time I die to something—my notions of my own specialness, my plans and desires for something to be a very particular way—every single time I fight it and yet every single time I discover more life and more freedom than if I had gotten what I wanted.

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About Nadia Bolz-Weber

Nadia Bolz-Weber (born April 22, 1969) is an American author, Lutheran minister and public theologian. She served as the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints, a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Denver, Colorado, until July 8, 2018.
Bolz-Weber is known for her unusual approach to reaching others through her church. She has produced work in the church that scholar and writer Diana Butler Bass considers part of "a new Reformation".