Quotes from NT Wright
The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
- NT Wright
When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.
- NT Wright
Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.
- NT Wright
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project.
- NT Wright
Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
- NT Wright
God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.
- NT Wright
Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy - and that this has begun to be fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus.
- NT Wright
think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.
- NT Wright
Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.
- NT Wright
Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.
- NT Wright
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.
- NT Wright
All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.
- NT Wright