Quotes from NT Wright

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.'

I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.

As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.

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 resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world.