Quotes from NT Wright

If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

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.

If you believe in the Bible, you've got to do business with it and not just screen it out.

But if Christians don't get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

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.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies is never in fact alone.