My proposal is not that we understand what the word ‘god’ means and manage somehow to fit Jesus into that. Instead, I… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Funny but, for me, the Bible was a hobby before it was a serious study. It was the thing I'd sneak off… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
When I was at seminary in my early twenties, one of my teachers said to me, "You're going to have to decide.… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
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… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and… — 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
When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
There's a great deal about Roman Catholicism that I basically disagree with. For instance, the doctrine of Mary which... I have studied… — 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 think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and… — 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
