Quotes about Wholeness
Holiness is multidimensional.
— NT Wright
We are saved not as souls but as wholes. (All
— NT Wright
But of course you can only do what you're meant to do with a baseball bat when you're playing with other people. And salvation only does what it's meant to do when those who have been saved, are being saved, and will one day fully be saved realize that they are saved not as souls but as wholes and not for themselves alone but for what God now longs to do through them.
— NT Wright
Because wholeness and meaning in life are not the products of what you have or don't have, what you've done or haven't done. You are already a whole person and possess a life of infinite meaning and purpose because of who you are—a child of God.
— Neil Anderson
We are half mechanical [physical] and half mysterious [spiritual]; to live in either domain and ignore the other is to be fools or fanatics... We have to WORK OUT in the mechanical realm what God WORK IN in the mysterious realm.
— Oswald Chambers
Christ labored in redemption to redeem the whole world and to place it perfectly whole and restored before the throne of God.
— Oswald Chambers
There are not three levels of spiritual life--worship, waiting, and work...God's idea is that the three should go together as one.
— Oswald Chambers
Educate our students as whole people, and they will bring all of who they are to the demands of being human in private and public life. The present and future well being of humankind asks nothing less of us.
— Parker Palmer
And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.
— Isaiah 33:24
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
— Matthew 5:48
Then Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored to full use, just like the other.
— Matthew 12:13
The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.
— 1 Corinthians 12:12