Quotes by N. T. Wright

Caesars messengers didnt go round the world saying, Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to have a Roman-empire kind of experience, you might want to submit to him.

If what we want is God’s justice, coming to sort things out, we will do better to get entirely out of the way and let God do his own work, rather than supposing our burst of anger (which will most likely have all sorts of nasty bits to it, such as wounded pride, malice and envy) will somehow help God do what needs to be done.

You cant reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

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 Symphony is sublime and beautiful? There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - How do I know that two plus two equals four? There are different layers, different types of knowing.

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesnt see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and well be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that were promised is much more interesting than that. Its new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.