Quotes from NT Wright

While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.

I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.

Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved

I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.

At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.