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
The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world. — 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
Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news… — 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… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent.… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
There's all the difference in the world between humbly saying "I want to find more light from Scripture than we have yet… — 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
The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and… — 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
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
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
Such debates [about the nature of Scripture], in my view, distract attention from the real point of what the Bible is there… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
He has done it. With Jesus, God’s rescue operation has been put into effect once and for all. A great door has… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Often the Jesus-focused churches are leaning towards a 'social gospel' interpretation of the kingdom, and the 'Paul' churches are talking about being… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The whole point of what -Jesus was up to was that he was doing close up, in the present, what he was… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
God build’s God’s kingdom. But God ordered this world in such a way that His own work within that world takes place… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which… — 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… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I am also very excited by the way in which we can see Paul wrestling not only with his Jewish world and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy,… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
We British say "to put the world to rights." I've discovered that that's not the way Americans say it and people scratch… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The power of the gospel lies[...] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Whatever life after death is, being with Christ which is far better, being in Paradise like the thief, etc, the many rooms… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Again and again the Sermon on the Mount calls and challenges us to a life of radical discipleship. Note: when Jesus says… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
God's kingdom is launched through Jesus and particularly through his death and resurrection; but, by the Spirit, this kingdom is not an… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The resurrection completes the inauguration of God's kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating thet God's kingdom really has… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Paul's vision, though, is starting small, with actual communities in which reconciliation and justice has to be practiced - like the rich/poor… — 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
![“Such debates [about the nature of Scripture], in my view, distract attention from the real point of what the Bible is there for. Squabbling over particular definitions of the qualities of the Bible is like a married couple squabbling over which of them loves the children more, when they should be…” quote by N. T. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c2e/n-t-wright-2-2245_attention_such-debates-about-the-nature-of-scriptu_1846692.jpg)
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