N. T. Wright Way Quotations

The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and we are called to do those things that truly anticipate the way God’s world WILL be.

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

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.

Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.

My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.

First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way.