N. T. Wright Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by N. T. Wright
N. T. Wright Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.
(When someone asked Augustine what God was doing before creation, he replied that God was making hell for people who ask silly questions.)
Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.
The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
Christianity is, simply, good news. It is the news that something has happened as a result of which the world is a different place
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
The day the church can no longer say, "We must obey God rather than human beings" (Acts 5:29), it ceases to be the church.
I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.
What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.
I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.
Resurrection, by contrast, has always gone with a strong view of God's justice and of God as the good creator.
Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.
When we sing, the sound made even by small-scale earthbound creatures such as us rings around the rafters that we cannot otherwise reach.
God's creative love, precisely by being love, creates new space for there to be things that are genuinely other than God.
My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.
Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.
To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.
If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.
Instead of "thinking God's thoughts after him," science was now studying the world as though God didn't exist.
Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.
Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.
When Jesus's followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't tell them to divide into focus groups and look deep within their own hearts.
sovereignty let loose through Jesus and the Spirit and aimed at the healing and renewal of all creation.
But the demonstration of the power of Jesus' name took place, not in the Temple, but outside the gate. God is on the move, not confined
But, granted that learning without love is sterile and dry, enthusiasm without learning can easily become blind arrogance.
Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.
... spirituality is a private hobby, an upmarket version of daydreaming for those who like that kind of thing.
One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.
don't believe everything you read about the Rapture. In fact, don't believe most of what you read about the Rapture.
Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved
Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.
Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.
So instead of suggesting that we could escape the earth to go to heaven, Jesus's good news was about heaven coming to earth.
The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.
The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.
Genesis 1 ... was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship.
our confidence is not in the solidity of Western culture or the basic goodness of modern democracy. Our confidence is in Jesus and him alone.
By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy
Those twin beliefs give rise not to a meek acquiescence to injustice in the world but to a robust determination to oppose it. English
The Gospel is not meant to make people odd or less than fully human; it is mean to renew them in their genuine, image-bearing humanness.
The point [of the gospels] is not whether Jesus is God, but what God is doing in and through Jesus. What is this embodied God up to?
People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.
Often people see doctrines as a checklist. Here are the following nineteen truths which you've got to believe to be a good sound Christian.
Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.
Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.
The kingdoms of the world run on violence. The kingdom of God, Jesus declared, runs on love. That is the good news.
The church's task in the world is to model genuine humanness as a sign and an invitation to those around.
Jesus was announcing that a whole new world was being born and he was "teaching" people how to live within that whole new world.
When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.
The wrong questions have been asked, by "liberals" and "radicals," by "conservatives" and "orthodox" alike.
Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.
Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
If the Bible is not simply "revelation," neither is it simply a devotional aid, even the primary devotional aid.
The more oppressed a group perceives itself to be, the more it will want to calculate when liberation will dawn.
When 'biblical' theologies ignore the gospels, something is clearly very wrong. (on atonement theories)
14And the Word became flesh, and lived among us. We gazed upon his glory, glory like that of the father's only son, full of grace and truth.
genuine faith is always seeking the Word hidden in the flesh, not using the Word simply as a way of getting at the flesh.
Death is the last weapon of the tyrant; the point of the resurrection, despite much misunderstanding, is that death has been defeated.
As Bob Dylan once said, "'I am the Lord thy God' is a fine saying, as long as it's the right person who's saying it.