Top 84 Bolz Quotes

#1. We have to hear again and again who God is for us and what God has done on our behalf. We must free each other from bondage through our confession and forgiveness.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#2. What they don't tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I have, and I've never come up with a satisfying explanation for why that is.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#3. The Bible is not God. The Bible is simply the cradle that holds Christ. Anything in the Bible that does not hold up to the Gospel of Jesus Christ simply does not have the same authority.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#4. We weren't a ship of fools so much as a rowboat of idiots.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#5. 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

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#6. This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#7. Sometimes help comes from unexpected places.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#8. It would seem that when we are sinned against, when someone else does us harm, we are in some way linked to that sin, connected to that mistreatment like a chain. And our anger, fear, or resentment doesn't free us at all. It just keeps us chained.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#9. Because in these healing texts, Jesus does not just cure people's diseases and cast out their demons and then say, "Mission accomplished." He's always after something more than that because the healing is never fully accomplished until there is a restoration to community.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#10. But at the time I didn't know that it would take more to escape black-and-white thinking than just no longer attending your parents' church. The church had provided me a sorting system, which was now ingrained. It had containers into which every person and idea and event was to be placed.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#11. Trying to prove scientifically the historical accuracy of events in the Bible is to faith what having your spouse under twenty-four-hour video surveillance is to marital trust.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#12. He said that there would be more information available in the narthex. I leaned over to Matthew and whispered, The Narthex? Isn't that a Dr. Suess character that speaks for the trees??

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#13. Knowing all of this makes me love and hate Jesus at the same time. Because, when instead of contrasting good and evil, he contrasted truth and evil, I have to think about all the times I've substituted being good (or appearing to be good) for truth.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#14. 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

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#15. The adjective so often coupled with mercy is the word tender, but God's mercy is not tender; this mercy is a blunt instrument. Mercy doesn't wrap a warm, limp blanket around offenders. God's mercy is the kind that kills the thing that wronged it and resurrects something new in its place.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#16. Every human community will disappoint us, regardless of how well-intentioned or inclusive.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#17. Of course if no one had ever been exposed to dangerous ideas from scandalous women, Christianity itself would not have had its unique beginning nor its glorious history, but whatever.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#18. 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

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#19. Getting closer to God might mean getting told to love someone I don't even like, or to give away even more of my money. It might mean letting some idea or dream that is dear to me get ripped away.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#20. Everything else is temptation.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#21. On All Saints' Sunday, I am faced with sticky ambiguities around saints who were bad and sinners who were good.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#22. 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

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#23. Sin is the self curved in on the self.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#24. Church isn't perfect. It's practice.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#25. What happens at the cross is a "blessed exchange." God gathers up all our sin, all our broken-ass junk, into God's own self and transforms all that death into life. Jesus takes our crap and exchanges it for his blessedness.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#26. 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

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#27. 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

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#28. But I cannot pretend, as much as sometimes I would like to, that I have not throughout my life experienced the redeeming, destabilizing love of a surprising God.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#29. We don't need to have a birthmark prophetically positioned in a sign on our third rib to tell us what the Bible has already told us: We are intricately, beautifully, and wonderfully made.

Shawn Bolz

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#30. 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

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#31. But the only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#32. The disciples' mistake was also my mistake: They forgot that they have a God who created the universe out of "nothing," that can put flesh on dry bones "nothing," that can put life in a dusty womb "nothing." I mean, let's face it, "nothing" is God's favorite material to work with.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#33. 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

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#34. 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

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#35. I know that people who don't believe in God might scoff at the idea that the creator of the universe has the time or inclination to try incessantly (and with not much long-term success) to change my heart. I get it. I just have no other explanation.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#36. And always, always, it is worth it to sing alleluia in defiance of the devil, who surely hates the sound of it.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#37. I need to be broken apart and put back into a different shape by that merging of things human and divine, which is really screwing up and receiving grace and love and forgiveness rather than receiving what I really deserve. I

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#38. Fearless love looks like this: I don't care what you think of me, there is a God in heaven who loves you so much that you won't care who I am; by the time you meet Him.

Shawn Bolz

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#39. 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

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#40. And then he went from Saul to Paul, from being the best at being a Jew to being the best at being a Christian. Only, at some point he realized that no one could really pull that off. That's when Paul finally understood grace.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#41. 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

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#42. Good Friday is not about us trying to "get right with God." It is about us entering the difference between God and humanity and just touching it for a moment. Touching the shimmering sadness of humanity's insistence that we can be our own gods, that we can be pure and all-powerful.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#43. People don't talk enough about what the freedom of a Christian looks like.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#44. God, please help me not be an asshole, is about as common a prayer as I pray in my life.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#45. Oh hey, God told me to tell you something: Get over yourself.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#46. The eunuch sought God despite the fact that he had heard that there was no love for him there.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#47. Smiley TV preachers might tell you that following Jesus is about being good so that God will bless you with cash and prizes, but really it's much more gruesome and meaningful. It's about spiritual physics. Something has to die for something new to live.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#48. The last shall be first and the first shall be last. This is exactly, when it comes down to it, why most people do not believe in grace. It is fucking offensive.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#49. Shit," I thought to myself, "I'm going to be late to New Testament class.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#50. Because in the end, we aren't punished for our sins as much as we are punished by our sins.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#51. Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#52. When Jesus was moved by compassion, it was not just a feeling he had, but an understanding and conviction of what those people meant to the Father.

Shawn Bolz

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#53. It felt like a gift that had been caretaken by generations of the faithful and handed to us to live out and caretake and hand off. Like a stream that has flowed long before us and will continue long after us.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#54. 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

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#55. As I wrote in Pastrix I, like any good middle-class mainline Protestant, tend to arrogantly look down my theological nose at talk of demon possession as superstitious snake-handling nonsense, as though it's the spiritual equivalent of a monster truck rally.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#56. 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 Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, your sins are forgiven, be now at peace.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#57. 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

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#58. Australia seems like a really faraway Canada, just with funnier animals.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#59. The beauty of our sky is really just a nice way for the earth to protect us from the terror of what's so vast and unknowable beyond. The boundlessness of the universe is disturbing when you think about it. It's too big and we're too small.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#60. I can only look at the seemingly limited space under the tent and think either it's my job to change people so they fit or it's my job to extend the roof so that they fit. Either way, it's misguided because it's not my tent. It's God's tent.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#61. 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

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#62. I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#63. Nadia Bolz-Weber, a Lutheran pastor, was once fuming to her husband against the wrong kind of Christians, and he told her that "every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it."39

William McDavid

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#64. I knew Catholics existed, with their saints and candles and rosaries, and all their other exotic ways of being wrong.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#65. We met the next day for coffee and when I asked her what was up she said, "I think I'm having a crisis of faith." To which I thought, what the hell does that look like for a Unitarian? "Yeah," she continued, "I-I think I believe in Jesus." Oh. That's what it looks like.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#66. We had started out caring about each other, but in the end none of us knew how to care for each other. But this experience taught me that a community based on the idea that everyone hates rules is, in the end, just as disappointing and oppressive as a community based on the ability to follow rules.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#67. this God, is revealed in Jesus Christ, who became flesh and walked among us full of grace and truth and who is so for us and with us that he would go to the grave on our behalf - when

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#68. God is always present in love and in suffering.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#69. We want to go to God for answers, but sometimes what we get is God's presence.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#70. But as much as being the person who is the best Christian, who "follows Jesus" the most closely can feel a little seductive, it's simply never been who I am or who my parishioners need me to be. I'm not running after Jesus. Jesus is running my ass down.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#71. Matthew once said to me, after one of my more finely worded rants about stupid people who have the wrong opinions, "Nadia, 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." Damn.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#72. We bring the holy things of the church onto the holy streets of the city because on some level, the violence and despair of Good Friday is still a human reality. Unfortunately, we've never lacked an opportunity to pay such a visit.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#73. If becoming a person of faith were more like, say, receiving a personality transplant, life would be easier.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#74. Good Friday is a stark and unapologetic display of remorse. Remorse for the way in which humanity kills ourselves and the creation and love and God him/herself.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#75. Many of us would pray not to die in a car crash before we were baptized, like other people pray to not get sick before their employee benefits kick in.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#76. This is the goal of prophecy: to connect people to the empowering nature of God so they can become like him and display his marvelous nature to all the earth.

Shawn Bolz

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#77. When these kinds of things happen in my life, things that are so clearly filled with more beauty or redemption or reconciliation than my cranky personality and stony heart could ever manufacture on their own, I just have no other explanation than this: God. Nadia Bolz-Weber

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#78. On some level, although we can't handle the pain of acknowledging it, Good Friday happens every day.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#79. So if God's first move is to give us our identity, then the devil's first move is to throw that identity into question. Identity is like the tip of a spool of thread, which when pulled, can unwind the whole

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#80. 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

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#81. Sometimes the best thing we can do for each other is talk honestly about being wrong.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#82. Those most qualified to speak the gospel are those who truly know how unqualified they are to speak the gospel.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#83. The Bible had been the weapon of choice in the spiritual gladiatorial arena of my youth. I knew how, wielded with intent and precision, the Bible can cut deeply, while on the one holding it can claim with impunity that this is from God.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#84. The movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can't, through our piety or goodness, move closer to God. God is always coming near to us. Most especially in the Eucharist and in the stranger.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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