Quotes from NT Wright
The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.
- NT Wright
God has taken us utterly seriously. How can we not do the same with him?
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The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.
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Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?
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I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break out of his holy Word.
- NT Wright
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.
- NT Wright
God is the Creator God, he doesn't want to say, "Okay, creation was very good, but I'm scrapping it." He wants to say, "Creation is so good that I'm going to rescue it."
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It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.
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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.
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Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.
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Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once.
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The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
- NT Wright