“Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are behaving in a way that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Worship” was and is a matter of gazing with delight, gratitude, and love at the creator God and expressing his praise in… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or remote,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Wise Christian worship takes fully into account the fact that creation has gone horribly wrong, has been so corrupted and spoiled that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with the following analogy. He says… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“This means that the church, the followers of Jesus Christ, live in the bright interval between Easter and the final great consummation. Let's make… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The very mention of crucifixion was taboo in polite Roman circles, since it was the lowest form of capital punishment, reserved for slaves and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“Sunday, kept as a commemoration of Easter ever since that event itself (a quite remarkable phenomenon when you come to think about it), is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The point of trying to understand the cross better is not so that we can congratulate ourselves for having solved an intellectual crossword puzzle,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“there is no such thing as a god’s-eye view (by which would be meant a Deist god’s-eye view) available to human beings, a point… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The “goal” is not “heaven,” but a renewed human vocation within God’s renewed creation. This is what every biblical book from Genesis on is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“having a hard enough time explaining to his disciples that he had to die; they never really grasped that at all, and they certainly… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“If we are talking about the victory over evil and the launch of new creation, it won’t make much sense unless we are working… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The personal message of Good Friday, expressed in so many hymns and prayers which draw on the tradition of the Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53)… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“Blessings on the poor in spirit! The kingdom of heaven is yours” (Matt. 5:3) doesn’t mean, “You will go to heaven when you die.”… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“As C. S. Lewis regularly remarked, the chronological snobbery of the modern age (i.e. the assumption that anything that comes after around 1750 is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“The kingdom of God is, at its heart, about God’s sovereignty sweeping the world with love and power, so that human beings, each made… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
“pre-Christian Judaism, including the disciples during Jesus’s lifetime, never envisaged the death of the Messiah. That is why they never thought of his resurrection,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share
