N.T. Wright Quotes

For Christians it's always a love game ... that He is love itself ... Indeed, some have suggested th...

Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the a...

Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentra...

Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and out...

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to...

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural ...

The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that c...

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his ...

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits w...

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because o...

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insuffer...

Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or ...

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming...

The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of ...

The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.

Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate p...

Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately,...

The debate that has been conducted in terms of "creation versus evolution" has gotten caught up with...

It is not about "life after death" as such. Rather, it's a way of talking about being bodily alive a...

Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to refl...

The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it...

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still...

The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing.

After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Ju...

We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of...

the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) abo...

When God “saves” people in this life, by working through His Spirit to bring them to faith, and by l...

The longer you look at Jesus, the more you will want to serve him in his world. That is, of course, ...

You see, the bodily resurrection of Jesus isn't a take-it-or-leave-it thing, as though some Christia...

Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or r...

Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of su...

Now love doesn't stop at death - or if it does, it's a pretty poor sort of love! In fact, grief coul...

The myth of purgatory is an allegory, a projection, from the present on to the future. This is why p...

In particular, we must take account of the well-known and striking saying of Jesus to the dying brig...

...It Isn't actually much of an encouragement to me to read the stories about Jesus. I might as well...

True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FO...

To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop th...

That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and...

The radical hermeneutic of suspicion that characterizes all of post-modernity is essentially nihilis...

Within biblical theology it remains the case that the one living God created a world that is other t...

Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to h...

When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progres...

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

At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly...

...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general bel...

Our confidence in the future restorative justice of God may even give us confidence to do justice ou...

To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time...

You are following Jesus and shaping our world in the power of the Spirit. And when the final consumm...

[re: I Corinthians 15:34,58] "The present life of the church, in other words, is not about "soul-mak...

On the seventh day God rested in the darkness of the tomb;Having finished on the sixth day all his w...

Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and...

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should...

The "word" did not "offer itself" in a take-it-or-leave-it fashion, any more than Caesar's heralds w...

Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualis...

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you chan...

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of ...

Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship betwe...

Human was simultaneously the bearer of God's wise rule into the world, and also the creature who wou...

We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping...

If, therefore, those called to office and leadership roles in the church remain content merely to or...

Stripped of its arrogance, its desire to make off with half of the patrimony and never be seen again...

The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mam...

From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issue...

Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present spac...

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

If what we want is God’s justice, coming to sort things out, we will do better to get entirely out o...

Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do ...

Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to ha...

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us wh...

Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in th...

I have argued that the God of the Bible, and especially of the Gospels, can be understood only as Go...

The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are beh...

The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with...

Layer upon layer it comes, dense and rich within the texts, echo upon echo, allusion and resonance t...

As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repe...

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that pe...

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

Note, though, something else of great significance about the whole Christian theology of resurrectio...

Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and h...

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the ...

Since both the departed saints and we ourselves are in Christ, we share with them in the 'communion ...