Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

- N. T. Wright

Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved

- N. T. Wright

What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, wr…

- N. T. Wright

It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.

- N. T. Wright

Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

- N. T. Wright

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

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

- N. T. Wright

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists f…

- N. T. Wright

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 heav…

- N. T. Wright