N. T. Wright Quotes

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• If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.
• Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world…
• The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about
• Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
• The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and we are called…
• Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.
• I believe we face the question: if not now, then when? And if we are grasped by this vision, we may also hear the question:…
• Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.
• But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to…
• Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are…
• People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.
• To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.
• Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the…
• Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part…
• 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 has discovered its…
• The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to…
• If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus.…
• Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.
• God has taken us utterly seriously. How can we not do the same with him?
• I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain, as the death…

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