Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
We have to train ourselves to use words accurately. And there's so much loose Christian talk, for which I've no doubt been… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The Christian is prepared to say, 'I don't like the sound of this, ... but if this is what it really means,… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I came to Paul at quite an early age, having already studied Plato and Aristotle; and I found Paul easily their intellectual… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Many people think that being Christian makes you sort of subhuman or, at least, less than fully human. Guys out there on… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
In the United States at present the 'culture wars' of the last thirty years have now produced a horrid stand-off which compels… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
For Paul 'righteousness' and 'justice' are the same word, as they were in Hebrew. Paul clearly believes that helping the poor is… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Christians living in a democracy should always vote if they can. If they cannot in conscience bring themselves to vote for any… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Often people see doctrines as a checklist. Here are the following nineteen truths which you've got to believe to be a good… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
From my student days I found him a compelling and fascinating, though often puzzling, figure. It's a lifelong fascination now and I… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
It is faith that looks up at the creator God and knows him to be the God of love. And it is faith that… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
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… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately". — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
