“The personal message of Good Friday, expressed in so many hymns and prayers which draw on the tradition of the Suffering Servant… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In the New Testament it is clear: because of Christ and the Spirit, every single Christian is welcome at any time to… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing.” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“[Jesus] is, at the moment, present with us, but hidden behind that invisible veil which keeps heaven and earth apart, and which… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The debate that has been conducted in terms of "creation versus evolution" has gotten caught up with all kinds of other debates,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“the gospel, in the New Testament, is the good news that God (the world’s creator) is at last becoming king and that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“But if Jesus is raised from the dead, then the scriptures have reached their goal in him, and it’s now time for… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“In other words, the Bible isn't there simply to be an accurate reference point for people who want to look things up… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The gospel by which individuals come to personal faith, and so to that radical transformation of life spoken of so often in… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The New Testament’s vision of Christian behavior has to do, not with struggling to keep a bunch of ancient and apparently arbitrary… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The question of “canon and creed,” which underlies quite a bit of this book, has become quite urgent and controversial and needs… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Only when we give full early Christian weight to the phrase “in accordance with the Bible” will we discover the full early… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“We read scripture in order to be refreshed in our memory and understanding of the story within which we ourselves are actors,… — 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
“There are many things which are pastorally helpful in the short or medium term which are not in fact grounded on the… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
