N.T. Wright: Quotes about God

N.T. Wright is Anglican bishop. Explore interesting quotes on god.
N.T. Wright: 30   quotes 9   likes

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

N.T. Wright

Source: Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense (2006)

God , Sun

“Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.”

N.T. Wright

Source: Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

Life , God , People

“the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.”

N.T. Wright
God , Soul , Sense , Future

“Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.”

N.T. Wright

Source: Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

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.”

N.T. Wright

Source: Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

God , Nature , Reality

“God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.”

N.T. Wright

Source: Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

Life , God , People , World

“Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.”

N.T. Wright

Source: After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

God

“The point of following Jesus isn't simply so that we can be sure of going to a better place than than this after we die. Our future beyond death is enormously important, but the nature of the Christian hope is such that it plays back into the present life. We're called, here and now, to be instruments of God's new creation, the world-put-to-rights which has already been launched by Jesus and of which Jesus's followers are supposed to be not simply beneficiaries but also agents.”

N.T. Wright

Source: Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense (2006), p. xi

Life , Death , God , World

“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 fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion…The gospel of Jesus points us and indeed urges us to be at the leading edge of the whole culture, articulating in story and music and art and philosophy and education and poetry and politics and theology and even--heaven help us--Biblical studies, a worldview that will mount the historically-rooted Christian challenge to both modernity and postmodernity, leading the way…with joy and humor and gentleness and good judgment and true wisdom. I believe if we face the question, "if not now, then when?" if we are grasped by this vision we may also hear the question, "if not us, then who?"”

N.T. Wright

And if the gospel of Jesus is not the key to this task, then what is?
The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is (2000)

Love , Wisdom , God , World