N.T. Wright: Quotes about life

N.T. Wright is Anglican bishop. Explore interesting quotes on life.

N.T. Wright: 30 quotes9 likes

“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.”

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

“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.”

Source: Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

“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.”

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