N. T. Wright Quotes

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• Most of the things that really matter require faith. How do I know that my wife loves me? How do I know that Mozarts Jupiter…
• What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event…
• I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be…
• When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of…
• Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in…
• It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies…
• It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.
• Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer to…
• The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation…
• All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the…
• The power of the gospel lies[...] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of evil have been…
• Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new…
• The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
• True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its watch, doesn't worry…
• True worship doesn't keep looking at its watch.
• The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.
• Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.
• When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.
• But if Christians don’t get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?
• If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

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