Quotes from N. T. Wright

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project.

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.

Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy - and that this has begun to be fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus.

think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.

The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

God has taken us utterly seriously. How can we not do the same with him?

The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.

Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?

I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break out of his holy Word.

Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom.

Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship.

God is the Creator God, he doesn't want to say, "Okay, creation was very good, but I'm scrapping it." He wants to say, "Creation is so good that I'm going to rescue it."

It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.

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 possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once.