N.T. Wright quote: What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of ...

What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.

~ N.T. Wright ~

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