“ What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future. N.T. Wright
“ We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he gradually builds out and grows up. Perhaps it's a measure of our maturity wh… N.T. Wright
“ Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to reflect God, it had been distracted by its own reflection and was both fascinated and fearful of what it… N.T. Wright
“ Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present. N.T. Wright
“ Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and celebrated like the sudden meeting of friends, excit… N.T. Wright
“ The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are behaving in a way that cannot be explained by what is already known, then another planet is searched fo… N.T. Wright
“ The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water in a more organized fashion. The pushback of the world hungry for… N.T. Wright
“ Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence. N.T. Wright
“ Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God. N.T. Wright
“ That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God the rescuer from the creation that recognizes its maker, the creation that acknowledges the tri… N.T. Wright
“ [re: I Corinthians 15:34,58] "The present life of the church, in other words, is not about "soul-making," the attempt to produce or train disembodied beings for a future disembodied life. It is about… N.T. Wright
“ Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life. N.T. Wright
“ The debate that has been conducted in terms of "creation versus evolution" has gotten caught up with all kinds of other debates, and this has provided a singularly unhelpful backdrop to the would-be s… N.T. Wright
“ We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings are regarded as sacrosanct as they stand, where God is required to command what we alr… N.T. Wright
“ Our confidence in the future restorative justice of God may even give us confidence to do justice ourselves in the present. We are called then, to stretch out the arms of our minds and hearts and to f… N.T. Wright
“ To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the then, and the now, and the not yet--is to understand how those emotions are… N.T. Wright
“ Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce. N.T. Wright
